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  • Lisa Smedman

    With her companion, a would-be combat biker named Rafael in tow, ex-Texan Leni joins a group of blood-thirsty Latin American pagans to investigate the murder of a prophetess who claimed to be her grandmother. Original....



  • John Vornholt

    Of Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers.... As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The seedy carn...




  • Christopher Reich

    Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancee, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before. Now chilling new evide...



  • Greg Cox

    Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster-ravaged ...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    The U.S.S. Voyager finds itself in a system where a planet might have existed, but doesn't. Where the planet should have been, millions and then billions of people are appearing from nowhere and dying in the vacuum of space.To solve the mystery and s...



  • 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...



  • John Peel

    SKYWALKER DATA PAD ENTRY LOCATION: TATOOINE In just half a day, my whole world has changed. The farm, my aunt and uncle.... They're gone. Destroyed by the Empire. All my life I've been waiting for something to happen to me. Something important. A...



  • David Weber

    DAVID WEBER In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction with his top-selling novels of Honor Farrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now two more military SF-world-beaters join him i...



  • Noel Hynd

    Just as his international tour is about to commence, brilliant pianist Rolf Geiger is violently tormented by an unimaginable evil force, his dead mentor, the renowned maestro Rabinowitz, who demands that Rolf murder his beloved as payment for his ext...



  • Larry Segriff

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR .. . Three weeks ago, there were only three things Tom Jenkins wanted out of life: 1) He wanted off of Brighthome, the interstellar reformatory, and into the Space Guard. 2) He wanted Alex, the latest incorrigible to b...



  • Eric T. Baker

    Aaron Hudson is forced to choose between loyalty to a corrupt task force that has turned its mission to protect a colony ship to its own profit, and cooperation with the investigators trying to shut it down. Original....



  • Cary Osborne

    As an imperial guard, Arden Grenfell was one of the elite. She pledged to defend the royal house of Glory--and her personal charge, Princess Jessa--to the death. But when the princess forsakes her birthright, Arden fails in her duty, and falls into d...



  • B.A. Chepaitis

    During a dark period in history known as the Killing Times, Jaguar tries to rehabilitate the era's criminals using telepathic therapy but meets a dangerous challenge in a severely disturbed female assassin, who would teach Jaguar the true meaning of ...



  • Janet Kagan

    Murder, mystery, and interstellar intrigue! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently the planet survey team’s physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of ...



  • Robert Weisbrot

    "Hercules:The Legendary Journeys" first burst onto television screens as a series of five action-packed movies.  But unlike previous Hercules movies, these didn't feature togas and flowery language.  Instead, the producers created a Hercules for ...



  • Ellen Steiber

    It is Yu Lan in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts -- a time of year when offerings are made to appease the ghosts roaming the earth. Only this time several murders have occurred, and the last victim left behind one message:...



  • Gore Vidal

    When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy,...



  • Daniel Cohen

    An introduction to the millennium and all of its related activities discusses such topics as the Millennium Virus, the Doomsday Prophecy, and the calculations that make the year 2000--or maybe 2001--a special date...



  • William R. Forstchen

    THE ULTIMATE BATTLE CRY It has been ten years since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But no battle ever fought against the warring Bantags can compare wit...



  • Rick Shelley

    In The Buchanan Campaign bestselling author Rick Shelley created a bold scenario of interplanetary invasion. In The Fires of Coventry he returned to that explosive universe to pit advanced technology against nature's most elemental weapon. Now he pre...



  • Piers Anthony

    At a time when Earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless boundaries can provide, strange things are born in the oceanic depths--things that the sea throws back up onto the land in retaliation of decades of pollution and abu...




  • Gary Krist

    How well do you know your spouse? What if the person you married was keeping secrets from you? What if the one you love is involved in something so dangerous it could destroy you both? Kate Theodorus is about to find out......



  • Tim Willocks

    Tom Willock’s first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. ...



  • David Bowman

    The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prizewinning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel -- a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future wh...



  • Barbara Vine

    When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at al...



  • Gonzalo Lira

    FBI agent and single mother Margaret Chisholm enters an uneasy partnership with an enigmatic CIA agent in an attempt to capture an international assassin known as Sepsis, a man of incomparable ruthlessness. Reprint....



  • Elmore Leonard

    Welcome to Cuba, 1898--where the insurrectos are in the hills, the rich are partying in Havana, and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders are about to come ashore. Into the melee an American cowboy arrives with a scheme to sell horses and run guns, earning ...



  • Marilyn Wallace

    It starts with a phone call luring her into the night--and before it ends five people will be grotesquely murdered, never knowing why they had to die.

    Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tou...




  • Gilbert Morris; Alan Morris

    Katy Steele and her partner, Sam Bronte, face their most dangerous assignment yet when they travel to St. Louis to help Sam's younger brother find out who is behind a series of mishaps aboard his riverboat. Original....



  • John Wilson

    Brutally attacked by a group of cruel athletes, Lyndsey Barratt vanishes, but now, seven years later, someone is exacting deadly revenge on these same attackers, and two people--journalist Julie Adams and Inspector Frank Illiffe--must delve into a wo...



  • David Compton

    Betrayed by the political game, a brilliant, idealistic campaign manager now finds himself chosen by the CIA for an extremely sensitive and volatile national security operation. Caught in a world of clandestine affairs and high-tech espionage, he bec...



  • Joseph Glass

    In Chicago, a renowned psychiatrist and criminal profiler with an uncanny gift has a grisly vision. Across town, detectives examine a body in a bathtub. As with other victims, the eyes were taken by the dead woman's savage killer.

    Now the fran...



  • Karen Young

    The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man -- the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan -- until he's finally stopped by a bullet Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by...



  • Thom Racina

    Hoping to persuade her boyfriend to propose, Audrey Goh "kidnaps" him for a fantasy weekend in the unfinished luxury hotel she owns in Hawaii, but an obsessed stranger has slipped through the hi-tech security system, someone who is determined to have...



  • Alexander M. Grace

    CIA agent Claude Lafeur is sent to free the American ambassador kidnapped by terrorists in the Dominican Republic after a massive attempt by the U.S. Army to free him fails. By the author of Crisis. Reprint....



  • William Harrington

    Tell-all biographer Betsy Clendenin was many celebrities' worst fear. But when she began writing a book that would expose secrets buried in the notorious Hoover files, someone decided she'd gone too far. A mail bomb soon sends her, and the evidence s...



  • Sherman Alexie

    A serial murderer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. And the crimes of the so-called Indian Killer have triggered a wave of violence and racial hatred. Seattle's Native Americans are shaken and confused, none more so than John Sm...



  • Brian Moore

    Emmeline is the young, lovely wife of Henri Lambert, a world-famous magician. But her secluded, bourgeois existence ends when she and her husband are sent to North Africa on a mission for Napoleon III. Through his flawless illusionist's art, Lambert ...




  • Kent Anderson

    Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's...



  • Martin Amis

    New York Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mike is a woman with a nicotine voice, dyed blond hair and is an alcoholic who had been abused by her father. The victim is Jennifer Rockwell, who Mike had known si...



  • A.L. Kennedy

    "Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, an...



  • Faye Sultan

    When Jimmy Weir, a not-too-bright but apparently harmless delivery boy (though he is, in fact, a very large man) for the local grocery store, murders and sexually mutilates two elderly women in the small town of Dixon, South Carolina, the defense tea...



  • Jeffrey Ashford

    Lord and Lady Awkwright, awakened in the night, lie bound and gagged in the dark while kidnappers carry their daughter away, holding her for ransom. It seems a typical kidnapping, yet in fact it is the kidnappers' intention that they should be seen t...



  • James H. Cobb

    Brimming with heat-of-battle action and state-of-the-art technology, Sea Strike plunges Commander Amanda Garrett, first introduced in Choosers of the Slain, and her stealth destroyer, USS Cunningham, into action. After suffering internal revolt, Comm...



  • Clyde Farnsworth

    When Russian physicist Dmitri Sherbatov defects to Israel with the means to create synthetic gold, it is not the Israeli government that will profit from his secret, but rather a group of Mossad officers and the CIA. A first novel. 15,000 first print...



  • Sheri Holman

    “Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly).A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen...



  • Christiane Heggan

    A YOUNG LAW CLERK IS KILLED. A HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL IS STRANGLED. TWO MEN ARE FRAMED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND ONE WOMAN INTENDS TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. Defense attorney Kate Logan has become embroiled in two important murder cases. One is the def...



  • William Hoffman

    The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...



  • Andrew Klavan

    Richard Storm is passionate, hot-blooded, and running at of time. Sophia Endering is cool, beautiful, and haunted by a centuries-old mystery. Now the Hollywood filmmaker and the troubled young woman have come together in a race against the unbelievab...



  • Eamonn Sweeney

    Paul Kelly is the manager of a successful pub in southeast London, but his life has become a constant drunken binge since his wife's death. When Paul's brother Johnny is murdered, their mother calls him home to the town in Ireland where he grew up. T...



  • Patricia Rosemoor

    Flint Armstrong woke from a nightmare to a nightmare - a dead woman in his bed. Charged with murder, he has no alibi, no memory of that night and no one to believe in him. Except his sister-in-law. Who may be all he needs. Nicky Keating has alway...



  • Donna Julian

    HE KILLS IN THE NAME OF BEAUTY... Christi Anthonv's life is a waking nightmare. She is being stalked by a madman who has already stolen the lives of five women. They were all contestants in Kansas City's annual Rose Pageant--all young, all beautiful...



  • Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Cornelia Van Gorder does not scare easily and is excited to be playing detective, but after stumbling upon a corpse, Cornelia realizes that it is no game and that she is hot on the trail of an evil killer known as The Bat. Reissue....



  • Caroline Burnes

    THE HEAT WAS ON... Burning, scorching, searing heat. That's what new sheriff Kate McArdle felt every time she encountered Silver City's fire chief, Jake Johnson. Which was often, since a rash of arsons was forcing them to work together. Desper...



  • Cassie Miles

    Alone in a mountain blizzard with her son in the hands of kidnappers, Susan Richardson needed rescuing. But why did her ex-husband, Grant, have to be her rescuer? If only Susan had been more careful, Grant thought. If only Grant hadn't made s...



  • Beverly Barton

    THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN? Gabriel Hawk was every mother's worst nightmare and every daughter's secret fantasy. Unless that daughter was Rorie Dean! Unfortunately, the dark, brooding man with a heart of stone and a body that yelled sex was Rorie's o...



  • Linda Howard

    Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Viet Nam War over twenty years ago. Unwilling to deal wi...



  • Karen Robards

    Ronnie Honneker is the senator's wife. When she fell for the dashing politician, the stars in her eyes kept her from seeing his flaws. And when she discovered his constant need for other women, it was already too late. Now all the glamour of politics...



  • Charlotte Hughes

    Within every shadow... A former crime reporter heads to her small hometown in search of solace. But acclaimed suspense writer Charlotte Hughes deftly turns the comforts of home into a dark tale of treachery and murder. Lies an Unsettling Secret ...



  • Jenna Ryan

    THE MAN WAS HARD TO RESIST ... .Aidan Brodie's sensual stare could seduce a woman almost against her will. Samantha Giancarlo found herself to be no exception. Her reporter's instincts screamed at her to stay far away. But fate--in the form of a w...



  • Mona Gedney

    A LOST MANUSCRIPT AND A STOLEN HEART After her father's death, the bookish, pretty and very innocent Elise Ashford considers herself lucky to be taken in at Wicklow Manor to catalogue the estate's library. Not as fortunate is the attention...



  • Eileen Putman

    HIS FAIR LADY Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, found being a reformed rake terribly dull. So he wagered a friend that he could make any pretty trollop in London pass for a lady of the ton. But when his friend presented him with Miss Hannah Gregory,...



  • Andrea Pickens

    A Lady's Deception Lady Jane Stanhope, vowing that no one would bridle her spirit, had devised the most extraordinary plan to escape an arranged marriage. The high-spirited, highborn, and highly pampered Lady Jane was running away...to enter s...



  • Judith A. Lansdowne

    An Exceptional Young Lady ...And An Earl With A Reputation For Danger When Miss Minerva Potts cried off her engagement to the self-absorbed Lord Whithall, she vowed not to marry at all, or if she must, she would choose as the gentlemen obviously d...



  • Janice Bennett
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    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...



  • Nancy Butler

    Love's Letter Evelynne Marriott, a gentlewoman born, had donned the disguise of a rough-and-tumble lad. With her family fallen on hard times, she toiled away at a man's job to keep a roof over all their heads. Not that she expected the wea...



  • Carola Dunn
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    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...



  • Dorothea Donley

    BOUND BY DUTY With her parents long-dead, Lady Charlotte had devoted herself to raising her only sibling Sydney, the Duke of Audley. But when the callow youth developed a tendre for the most unsuitable young woman, Charlotte turned to Sir Roland Mar...



  • Monique Ellis
    in

    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...



  • Mary Balogh

    Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...



  • Frances Temple

    When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a political pawn in a war between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon as he can.

    But while Atiyah is studying at the ...



  • Lori Wick

    An uplifting anthology of short stories, each accompanied by the author's personal insights into the characters or background of the tale, ranges from a delightful tale of camping the wilderness to enjoying a Disneyland Christmas, all the while shari...



  • Diane Noble
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    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...



  • Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Life was perfect, Devora thought. Assisting her Uncle Barnabas with his patients was exhilarating, and the thought of marriage to her beau, Edward, filled her heart with joy. Then the Countess of Radburn made a life-changing announcement: Devora must...



  • Debra White Smith
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....



  • Ellen Conford

    "Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school."

    B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine's D...



  • Barbara Jean Hicks
    in

    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...




  • Sally Laity
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....



  • Kathleen Yapp
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....



  • Loree Lough
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....




  • Karen Ball
    in

    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    With more than 17 million copies of his novels in print W.E.B. Griffin presents his most riveting series of the men and women behind the badge -- united by a code of courage, loyalty, and trust. A brutal crime. A group of urban terrorists. An invest...



  • Roderic Jeffries

    After a night of hard partying, four British tourists fall asleep on a pleasure boat off Mallorca. The next morning, however, three of them, Sheard, Kirsty, and Cara, slowly realize that the fourth, Lewis, is no longer there. Inspector Alvarez is dis...



  • Dan Mahoney

    A girl missing in New York. A political bombing in Iceland. No ordinary cop would see a connection. But Detective First Grade Brian McKenna didn't earn his reputation by being ordinary. In ONCE IN, NEVER OUT, McKenna travels the globe in pursuit of h...



  • Jamie Harrison

    BIG SKY, OLD BONES, AND MURDEROUS OBSESSION. BLUE DEER, MONTANA HAS IT ALL... A Cleveland hunter had just shot off his best friend's hand and the first blizzard of the season was blowing into Blue Deer, Montana, when a camper found an old skeleton...



  • Charlotte Maclay

    Once upon a time... "Daddy, can we keep her?" Drake Hart was expecting a slow day of fishing with his little son, Matt, when he came across a beautiful blonde named Aria. She sang like an angel and looked like one, too--which was easy to see since...



  • Mary Jo Putney
    in

    A shy mortal girl rashly accepts a faery lord's offer of beauty and charm. Then he comes to claim a terrible price --- the loss of her new love and everything she holds dear....



  • Alice Alfonsi

    Newport, Rhode Island, 1998 She put her ear to the door and closed her eyes, trying to recognize voices or names. But after a few brief seconds, the sounds of the party faded. "It's gone..." whispered Hannah. The legend of private e...



  • Karen Harbaugh
    in

    Stolen by Faerie to increase their powers, a beautiful changeling must choose between the lure of magic and the doomed mortal stranger who calls to her still-human heart....



  • Jo Beverley
    in

    A lovely lady discovers she is half-faery, created to bind a special man to the faery realm. But when he claims to love another, she defies the might of faeries to try and set him free. ***** Faery Weddings anthology (e-book) Gwen Forsythe is ...



  • Barbara Samuel
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    A faery lord is condemned to haunt the misty glens, cursed by his need to seduce mortal women to their deaths --- until a simple maid defies his spell and captures his heart....



  • Linda O. Johnston

    As a successful Hollywood executive, Mariah is on the lookout for the perfect screenplay, and while scouting locations in Pittsburgh, she thinks she has it. With an old-fashioned setting and Thorn, a hero to die for, she knows it will make a great mo...



  • Amanda Ashley

    Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...



  • Connie Flynn

    BENEATH A SHADOWY MOON . . . No one in New York City knows Lily's frightening secret --- or that she had been swept into a life of terror by a power too strong to resist. Miraculously, she escaped that world, and now has the chance to find a happy, ...



  • Laura Baker

    Can the power of love defeat time? SENT THROUGH TIME TO SAVE HIS TRIBE... For Lonewolf, the old ways were the only ways -- until a mysterious force pulled the Navajo stargazer one hundred and thirty years into the future. His enemy Kit Carson is...



  • Selma Eichler

    AN APPETITE FOR CRIME... Well-rounded P.I. Desiree Shapiro brings as much gusto to solving an unsavory crime as she does to creating--and consuming--a savory salmon mousse. But the demise of Luella Pressman has her stumped. The well-known children...



  • Steven Womack

    ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MURDER I LEARNED IN NASHVILLE The bestselling toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like "Never go to bed angry" and "Eat your vegetables." He ...



  • Parnell Hall

    ``I don't deal in danger,'' Stanley Hastings aptly tells his latest client. But Maxine Winnington, who obviously hasn't seen Stanley's r‚sum‚, hires him anyway to identify the person who's been harassing her with anonymous threatening phone calls...



  • Robert W. Walker

    In novels such as KILLER INSTINCT and DARKEST INSTINCT, FBI pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, coming face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious. But now Jessica must face a deadly ne...



  • Hal Friedman

    THE ULTIMATE HUNTER... Arthur Combs is LA's hottest story. Dubbed Starman, this terrifying serial killer is a monster who preys on beautiful, famous women--guided by the sadistic urges of a mysterious partner. THE PERFECT PREY... Katlyn Rome is ...



  • Penny Mickelbury

    ONE WASHINGTON ATTORNEY IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER THE DANGEROUS LIES AND DEADLY TRUTHS ABOUT HER HUSBAND'S MURDER Savvy, shrewd, and smart enough to recognize the thin line between law and justice, Carole Ann Gibson is a heavyweight in Washington, D.C....



  • Bill Pomidor

    DEADLY PRACTICES Someone at the financially stressed Riverside General Hospital seems to have forgotten the edict "First do no harm." It begins when forensic pathologist Dr. Calista Marley, her physician husband Plato, and six other division chief...



  • John T. Lescroart

    PAYBACK IS MURDER A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay... Down-and-out-...



  • Patrick Lynch

    ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Alex Tynan is a life insurance actuary. Numbers are her job - statistics, probability. So when the numbers stop adding up and a high-level executive dies, she begins to think the two are connected. As the company where she w...



  • Ben Mezrich

    You cannot escape. No place is safe. Not even your home. Turn on your television...boot up your computer...and meet Reaper, a brilliantly lethal man-made virus that travels the electronic highway, infecting its victims with the flick of a switch. W...



  • 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 Ha...



  • John R. Erickson

    Hank has his paws full when he discovers a mother cat and six kittens trespassing in a haystack on his very own ranch. (Have we mentioned that cowdogs don’t like cats?) Join Hank as he is trapped in a runaway pickup, surrounded by a herd of stray c...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When the Aldens come across a robbery at an antique store, they decide to use their detective skills to help locate the stolen ruby ring, bracelet, and necklace. Yet, before their investigation even begins, someone breaks into the Aldens'' home and s...



  • Betty Ren Wright

    The new kid in school accepts a dare -- and finds himself facing some spooky and surprising consequences: “[A] page-turner” (Booklist). Matthew Barber thinks that being the new kid in school will be the scariest thing about fourth grade. But is h...



  • Linda Hall

    After the death of her only daughter and the subsequent breakup of her marriage, Margaret Collingwood returns to her home in Coffins Reach, Maine, and to the seafront house she has inherited. She goes there to rest, to paint, and to find the God she ...



  • 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 all visiting ...



  • 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 taking a vacatio...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Boxcar Children are vacationing in London, England, where there is so much to see and do. They watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and see the famous crown jewels of England. But is someone following them?...



  • 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 a ...



  • Harlan Coben

    Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty...



  • 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 going to vi...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are on their first trip to Chicago―the Windy City―and from Wrigley Field to the Sears Tower to Grant Park, there is so much to see. However, when they are given a series of clues in rhyme, they find themselves in the middle of two myst...



  • Rankin Davis

    With his acclaimed debut The Right to Silence, Rankin Davis established himself as a master of courtroom suspense. Now he presents a bold new thriller, the shattering story of a legal system as tainted as the killers it is bound to bring to justice.....



  • Alice McDermott

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