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New Books List: 267 titles

  • Vulcan Rising

    Ashley Aasheim

  • Fascination

    Candice Adams

    What happens when a professional woman meets a wonderful man who seems to oppose everything she believes in? Eva Morgan is an accomplished architect, dedicated to restoring fine old houses in the most historic district of Tulsa.... ...

  • The Gargoyle Conspiracy

    Marvin Albert

    An explosion in Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport sends a soul-weary American agent on a strange search for a brilliant, mysterious Arab terrorist leader in this tale of political violence and intrigue. And while he searches, the man he is after nears...

  • Fields of Battle

    Kate Alexander

    What chance had their love in a world gone mad? A tale of love and conflict in wartime England. Rilla Gray was a beautiful working-class innocent, afraid of her feelings for a man who seemed so far above her, but willing to risk all to keep from l...

  • Starship

    Poul Anderson

  • Fate and Dreams

    Leslie Arlen

    In a World Ruled by Fear She Danced to Her Own Wild Rhythms. In the wake of Revolution, Russia's premier aristocrats, the Borodins, have scattered across the globe. Only Tatiana remains in the homeland -- Tattie, whose world-renowned dancing has ma...

  • One Man Forever

    Juliet Ashby

    THE BIDDING WAS HIGH . . . BUT SO WERE THE STAKES! Penny thought it only fair that business tycoon Pierce Reynolds offer her employment. After all, it was his last-minute bid on an Amati violin that had cost her her last job. The next thing she...

  • Summer Begins

    Sandy Asher

    When Summer and her friends found a class newspaper, their campaign to broaden the school's Christmas program to include Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist songs embroils them and their advisor in a bitter controversy...

  • Summer Smith Begins

    Sandy Asher

  • The Marchington Scandal

    Jane Ashford

    On the Surface, He's a Pretentious AristocratBut the Heart Sees More Than Meets the EyeLord Oliver Stonendon, or Stone Heart, as the ton refers him, flirts with every debutante. He's handsome, rich, and quite a catch, but he hasn't proposed -- not si...

  • Blizzard at the Zoo

    Robert Bahr

    You know what a zoo is like in the summer-a friendly place where you can see zebras and tigers and big polar bears. But where do the animals go in the winter? Do zebras like snow? And what happens during a big storm? Robert Bahr answers these questio...

  • Anne and Jay

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Born to Power

    Gloria Vitanza Basile

    The Manipulators, Book II Born To Power is the savage saga of a courageous young immigrant who fought to acquire the American dream. Then, just when he had it within his grasp, he found that there were unknown forces waiting to take it from him. I...

  • Three Little Pigs

    Aurelius Battaglia

  • Tears of Yesterday

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    TEARS OF YESTERDAY... But no tears for tomorrow. Paige and Lane Morgan had once shared the secret joys of marriage but had been unable to make the magic last. Given a second chance, they must find their way into each other's arms though a glitt...

  • Garden of Earthly Delights

    Peter S. Beagle

  • False Match

    Henry Bean

    Harold Raab, a young writer adrift in Berkeley, California, seeks meaning through an invented grand passion for a married woman known only from an overheard conversation, a passion that expands beyond his control...

  • The Lady's Maid

    Nella Benson

  • Wildfire Encounter

    Helen Bianchin

    How had she come to love such a devil? Her father was dead, her mother dispossessed and Sara's whole life had been turned disastrously upside down. The only person she could see to blame was Rafael Savalje, the real-estate mogul of Queensland&...

  • The Elfin Ship

    James P. Blaylock

    A trilogy sets sail with a novel that’s “charming, light-hearted and funny . . . Feels a little like The Hobbit or The Wind in the Willows†(Fantasy Literature).   James P. Blaylock’s debut novel The Elfin Ship has be...

  • California Dreamers

    Norman Bogner

    Relates the story of three ambitious women in Los Angeles--Claire, a successful department store buyer, Hilary, the daughter of a wealthy developer, and Madeleine, who will do anything to become a star...

  • Salt Lake

    Lucile Bogue

    The tragic and heroic trek of the Mormons across the western wilderness is vividly brought to life. Hounded out of their homes in Illinois by furious mobs enraged by the early Mormon practice of plural marriage, the Latter-day Saints fled westward. H...

  • A New Woman

    Janine Boissard

    Claudine, a middle-aged homemaker, struggles to build a new life for herself when her husband leaves her, her children are grown, and she undertakes a frustrating search for employment in a competitive world...

  • The Last Caress

    Dianna Booher

  • R is for Rocket

    Ray Bradbury

  • In Winter's Shadow

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Arthur Pendragon. A great king striving to unite a fragmented empire. Bedwyr. Arthur's best friend and loyal war leader ... and possessor of a terrible secret. Medraut. Bastard son of Arthur, brother of Gwalchmai, a man turned by the Dark to hatre...

  • The Devil's Playground

    Joanna Brandon

    His blue eyes glittered with icy fire. His smile mocked her. Her every instinct cried "Danger!" But Maile Riordan had no one to protect her now. Mike was dead, and unless she made Jake Weston her partner, her own brother could go to jail! The spee...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Jimmy Breslin

    A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rica...

  • The Elfstones of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    Ancient, ultimate evil threatened the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellcrys, the tree created by long-lost Elven magic, was dying, loosing the spell of the Forbidding that locked the hordes of ravening Demons away from Earth. Already the Reaper...

  • St. Martin's Summer

    Diana Brown

    THE ARROGANT INVADER Miss Josephina Trafford was quite happy to live a safe distance from the fashionable frenzy of Regency London. Not only was she a young lady of good breeding and even better sense, she was busy enough trying to save her family...

  • 19 Purchase Street

    Gerald A. Browne

    Laundering billions of dollars at the WASPS empire headquarters, lovers Gainer and Leslie plot the ultimate heist against the deadly stuffed shirts at 19 Purchase Street, in a story of greed, murder, and revenge...

  • Island on the Hill

    Dixie Browning

    LIBERATED! That's how Frances felt after buying her new home. Her independence was hard won, and she wasn't about to give it up for a mere man. Her neighbor, Cabel McCloud, felt the same way about women. And he had a personality every...

  • Ready, Aim, Die

    Peter Buck

  • A Woman of Two Continents

    Pixie Burger

    FROM THE WILD ARGENTINE PLAINS TO LONDON’S ROYAL COURT. FROM THE RIVIERA’S SEDUCTIVE SPLENDOR TO PARK AVENUE’S PROUD WEALTH… ONE WOMAN’S DESIRE BURNED THROUGH THREE GENERATIONS. EDIE -- The last of the expatriate British aristocrats. She...

  • Or Be He Dead

    James Byrom

  • The Coming Out Party

    John Caffey

    Not since La Cage aux Folles... Not since Auntie Mame... Not since My Fair Lady... It's back! A novel so outrageous it was banned in England! As Stallion Magazine said: It is obvious that Mr. Caffey has had a very good time. You will, too! Win...

  • Joshua's People

    Alan Caillou

  • The Wild Dancer

    Chad Calhoun

  • Stolen Passions

    Drusilla Campbell

    As animosity increases between the Yankee and Irish immigrant communities in nineteenth-century Massachusetts, Suzannah Hopewell struggles to save the Hopewell Mills from financial ruin and her drunken spendthrift brother...

  • Spooky Night

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • The Bellerose Bargain

    Robyn Carr

    FOR A FORTUNE IN SILVER, A TAVERN MAID WAS ROYALLY WED...TO A DANGEROUS MASQUERADE! The daring bargain was sealed. Penniless Alicia agreed to pose as a missing heiress, and thus become the wife -- in name only -- of Geoffrey, Lord Seavers. Handsom...

  • This Ravished Rose

    Anne Carsley

    She endured the bruising passions of a man she tried to hate.... She defied the evil lust of another who schemed to corrupt and control England. Daughter of a nobleman exiled by Edward IV, Katherine Hartley's flashing beauty and hot-blooded pride...

  • My Lucky Star

    Becka Cassiday

    Life could be the cat's meow! At least according to Andy Warren, the guy next door. But for Stacy Callahan the summer was a drag -- what with a big house to manage, a bratty little brother, and a romance with a temperamental fellow astronomer that se...

  • A Negotiated Surrender

    Jayne Castle

    It was a battle for dominance from the moment they first locked wills over the bargaining table. Slade York had taken Calla Nevin's challenge from the boardroom to the bedroom, where he was determined to conquer her once and for all! She vowed...

  • First Knight

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    FROM THE AGE WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER... THE IMMORTAL ROMANCE THAT BECAME A ROYAL SCANDAL All the colorful characters and events of fabled Camelot come vividly to life in this unique new account of the legendary King Arthur, Lancelot du Lac, ...

  • Pickup on Noon Street

    Raymond Chandler

  • Merchanter's Luck

    C.J. Cherryh

    His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names. Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starsh...

  • Love and Lady Lovelace

    Marion Chesney

    THEY MARRIED EACH OTHER FOR MONEY -- AND THEN FOUND THEY HAD NOTHING BUT LOVE... When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled by her curmudgeon cousin, who nearly bankrupted her, she decided she would have to marry again for money...

  • Moonlight Enough

    Sandra Clark

    She wanted to be loved, but not for her money! A enigmatic stranger saved Vinny's life and won her heart, telling her they'd live happily on the "love and roses" a flamenco guitarist could afford. Having come to Spain to forget ...

  • The Taking of Satcon Station

    Barney Cohen

  • On Wings of Magic

    Susanna Collins

    Film animation was Carol's only love -- until she met Raul Deza while studying her art in Mexico City. Raul! Friend...lover...artist.... They created soaring beauty in their lives and on the screen. But Raul could not commit himself to love, and ...

  • Lace

    Shirley Conran

    'WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES IS MY MOTHER?' This question sears through the thoughts of the four women summoned so mysteriously to a glamorous New York apartment. This same question unlocks the past and a secret (a secret that has enmeshed their lives...

  • Star's End

    Glen Cook

    The Fortress on the edge of the galaxy was called Stars' End, a planet build for death, but by whom? It lay on the outermost arm of the Milky Way, silent, cloaked in mystery, self-contained and controlled, tantalizingly close to the harvesting Starfi...

  • The Personal Touch

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Was Tim really an acronym for Terrible Infuriating Monster? Sunny was convinced that it was. Every single summer of her sixteen years Tim and his rich, snobbish parents returned to Sea's Edge to make her life miserable. Now here he was again! It w...

  • Nowhere to Go but Home

    Carman Cortazzo

  • Midnight Magic

    Christine Hella Cott

    PASSION FLAMED IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY For terrifying hours after the wreck Tara had been clutching a frail rubber raft on the storm-swept ocean. She lost consciousness as a final wave washed her limp body onto a rocky beach. A man found he...

  • Lord Carrisford's Mistress // Caroline

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Society gossips had branded her a harlot. Now, she was forced to live up to her reputation... Caroline Adams was one of the most ravishing creatures of her day. Yet her beauty had only brought her grief. She had been a profitable decorative addition ...

  • The Reluctant Viscountess

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Reluctant Viscountess, Reluctant Bride According to her mother, Adrienne was far too clever. If only she'd be content wit her beauty instead of wanting to discuss politics and philosophy. But Adrienne had her romantic side, too. She longed to ...

  • Torn Asunder

    Ann Cristy

    They'd shared more wild passion, sweet moments, and furious arguments in one year than most people had in a lifetime. But now it was finished! Cleora Orwell never did things halfway -- in her fashion designs or in her love life. So she marched ou...

  • Warrior Wives

    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

    Brunhilde, Chief's Son: They call her the Amazon. No man can equal her in battle. Her body stands tall and strong, her spirit proud and fierce. A warrior, beautiful in her power. Only with Siegfried, golden prince, does Brunhilde allow herself th...

  • The Ayes of Texas

    Daniel Da Cruz

    A CALL TO ARMS It was 1994, but Gwillam Forte was an entrepreneur of the old school. Twenty-three disabled Veterans needed a reason to live, so he gave them a rusty hulk the battleship U.S.S. Texas and unlimited funds to make her beautiful and sea...

  • Foxfire Light

    Janet Dailey

    In the wooded Ozark hills Joanna met proud-hearted Linc Wilder. His gold-flecked eyes mocked her; his country-born spirit clashed with her city-wise ways. His lean body challenged her, sparking her senses till Joanna was as sweetly glowing as the fox...

  • My Lord Kasseem

    Mons Daveson

    They were from two different worlds From the moment she saw him, Alex was filled with tempestuous longing for the enigmatic Sheik Kasseem ben Omair. But she was an ordinary librarian and he an imperious son of the desert who'd vowed never to m...

  • Eagles

    M.H. Davis

    A thrilling novel of military lives—and loves—as USAF pilots ignite the engines of their F-15 Eagles and take to the skies. They are intoxicating seductresses willing to do anything—absolutely anything—for love; however, these...

  • Aloha, My Love

    Lucinda Day

    Island of legend, island of love. For petite, golden-haired Sylvana Brooke, it was a long way from Oklahoma to Hawaii. She was exhilarated by her new world of exotic possibilities -- not the least of which was Steve McCloud, the man who had begun by ...

  • Keepers of the House

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    1783. Rodrigo and Sancho Beltrán came to this Andean valley from Spain and found behind barred windows the beautiful twin sisters who were last in the line of the illustrious conquistador de Labastida. From his deathbed their father had sworn th...

  • The Cockermouth Mail

    Dinah Dean

    Was she a fool to believe in miracles? Miss Dorcas Minster was penniless and without prospects. She had no choice but to accept a position as governess in Cockermouth, a remote town in the English Lake District. Resolved to make the best of her...

  • Make No Promises

    Sherry Dee

    MAKE NO PROMISE... Cassie was instantly attracted to Steele, attracted in a way that she had never been to any man. She couldn't get Steele Malone out of her mind, even though only hours before she had thought she was engaged to his brother, Paul....

  • The 13th Valley

    John M. Del Vecchio

    A work that has served as a literary cornerstone for the Vietnam generation, The 13th Valley follows the strange and terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory c...

  • Call of the Heart

    Wanda Dellamere

    CAMILLA REFUSED TO BELIEVE THE TELEGRAM Missing. Presumed Dead. Her beloved sister, Megan, could not be dead. So Camilla flew to Afghanistan, determined to find her. Being a stranger in an even stranger land was most unnerving--until she met th...

  • Temple Kent

    D.G. Devon

  • The Lively Dead

    Peter Dickinson

    In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London tow...

  • The Lavender Blossom

    Dorothy Dixon

    Her smile was as fresh as a soft morning in spring. Her hair was so gold it might have been tangled with the sun. Lavender was the fiery beauty who married the outlaw John Younger - but loved his brother Cole. Passion, more deadly than prairie fir...

  • Heart Beat

    Eugene Dong

    After Dr. William Bradfield uses an experimental, highly controversial nuclear device to operate on a dying heart patient, the Bay Area is at the mercy of a kidnapper who threatens the entire region with nuclear contamination...

  • Infidel of Love

    Casey Douglas

    SHE COULD NEVER BE PART OF HIS WORLD Strong-willed Holly MacKnight met her match in Captain Arif Hakal, a proud Turkish horseman firmly tied to his country's traditions. With smooth mastery he quickly conquered her heart. But Arif was bound by ...

  • The Lair of Ancient Dreams

    Asa Drake

    In the blackest night of the darkest century, Lamasbtu the Demoness had branded Katia, an accused witch, and Vaida, a soldier priest of the Inquisition. She wants them. She will destroy them. Irresistacly drawn by her diabolical charm, Katia and Vaid...

  • Whispered Promise

    Bonnie Drake

    Senator Drew Charles said they had unfinished business. His burning kisses appeared to seal a passionate pact. How had this devastating man penetrated so quickly to his beautiful opponent's fiery core? For five years Dr. Daran Patterson had remai...

  • Wives and Widows

    Rebecca Drury

  • Denver

    John Dunning

    By the 1920s, Denver had outgrown its frontier-town beginnings. But for some, life was still as perilous as the surrounding terrain. The insidious influence of the Ku Klux Klan was reaching its peak, and those who stood in its path feared for their s...

  • Weather

    Michael Eden

  • Wildflower

    Jaroldeen Edwards

    BORN TO WEALTH AND PRIVILEGE. Catherine Summerwell was blind to her ripening beauty, confused by the growing discontent that drove her to defy gracious Mt. Royal society, to stand alone and create her own world.... TOUCHED BY HEARTBREAK AND BITTE...

  • Fleet Wedding

    Rachelle Edwards

    THE STAKES WERE HIGH, BUT THE OFFER WAS IRRESISTIBLE. When the Earl of Astbury inherited his title, he also inherited enormous, overdue debts. But "Foxy's" keen mind and wizardry at cards soon changed all of that. Then the notorious gambler, Si...

  • The Survivor

    Jack Eisner

    Heroic events and unforgettable characters mark a compelling account of Eisner's determined efforts to outwit the Nazis in occupied Poland, a confrontation that began during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in which the thirteen-year-old Eisner took part...

  • Young Doctors in Love

    Michael Elias

  • King, Bishop, Knight

    Robert Emmett

  • Gentle Betrayer

    Lynn Erickson

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE ACROPOLIS, ON THE BLISTERING MEDITERRANEAN SHORES -- THEIRS WAS A DARK DANCE OF DANGER AND PASSION! Lovely, hazel-eyed Alethea Holmes, restaurant reviewer for an international gourmet magazine, was on assignment in Athens when...

  • Longarm and the Great Train Robbery

    Tabor Evans

    THE WARNER GANG WAS THE MEANEST OF THEM ALL... And the massacre on the Glendale train was the most savage of their crimes. Five innocent people are dead, murdered by the heartless killer Finn Larson, hired gun for the Warner brothers. But Feder...

  • Amber's Pleasure

    Darrell Fairfield

    Amber has no problem entertaining herself. She always has a hundred wicked little improvisations up her lacy sleeve. And Roger Rowayton needed no prompting when it came to providing a lady's pleasure. But the MacKenna entertainment empire was in hot...

  • Valley of the Passions

    Paula Fairman

    The men Sara Landers loved had survived and dominated the harsh Oregon land. Lee Coulter was her fiance, a virile, powerful rancher, and Mike Flynn had muscles that rippled like a stallion. Both had tried to tame her in the raw, open wilderness and n...

  • The Uninvited

    John Farris

    Late on a snowy November afternoon, while driving from town to her family's farm in upper New York State, Barry Brennan has the accident. From the first it is a mystery: the young man whom she strikes and injures slightly is physically perfect, strip...

  • Rapture's Dream

    Carol Finch

    He came each night to the peaks of pleasure as he held her silky body in his arms. The Honeyed softness of her kisses and the searing fires of her caresses left him yearning for more. She tempted and taunted, yet satisfied his desires as no other. Bu...

  • Yellow Rose

    Farris Fletcher

  • Bread and Roses

    Richard Gambino

    A PASSIONATE DYNASTY WHO MADE THE WORLD ITS OWN... Unjustly persecuted for avenging his father's murder, young Danilo Trinacria fled the poverty of his native land, survived the brutality of New York's Little Italy--and fought with iron-willed ambit...

  • The Judas Seed

    Anthony Gentile

  • The Way to St. Ives

    Sonia Gernes

  • Kitty

    Mary Ann Gibbs

    A LOVE CHILD BECOMES A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN. BEFRIENDED BY THE RICH BUT NEVER ONE OF THEM. NOW HER PRIDE WOULD BE HER UNDOING. When Kitty Ralston discovered that her late father was not only alive but, in fact, had never marred her mother, she chang...

  • Guns of Dragonard

    Rupert Gilchrist

  • Big Game

    George G. Gilman

  • Montana Melodrama

    George G. Gilman

  • Passion's Pleasure

    Valerie Giscard

    Everthing ceased to exist that first moment when Colin claimed the lovely Chantele on the dance floor. She was like a fragile flower in his arms -- so delicate, so innocent and so very desirable. The passion she stirred within him burned a fiery path...

  • London Calling North Pole

    H.J. Giskes

  • This Promised Land

    Gloria Goldreich

  • Pioneers

    Marie Gorsline

  • Big Bang

    Ron Goulart

    His brain scrambled, Jake tries to clear himself of a murder charge.

    Jake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last 24 hours are a blank; he doesn’t remember anything since he stepped into his sk...

  • The Iceberg and Its Shadow

    Jan Greenberg

  • Distant Relations

    Denice Greenlea

    THEY WERE DISTANT RELATIONS CLOSELY ENTANGLED IN A KNOT OF LOVE. Twenty is too old to turn down good proposals, people keep telling Elizabeth. But she is far too fanciful to marry for anything but pure love; and there is only one man who really in...

  • The Old Fox Deceiv'd

    Martha Grimes

    There was murder in the quaint North Sea village of Rackmoor. The body of a mysterious woman in a mummer's costume lay sprawled on a backwater street. Half her face had been painted black, the other half white, and the blood on her satin blouse had a...

  • Embraced by Destiny

    Simone Hadary

    At twenty, she first loved him. But proper Christa Rosati could never live the life of unwedded bliss that struggling artist Mark DeVries offered. While her heart wept, her head ruled, and she wed a "safe" man. At thirty, divorced, Christa retreat...

  • Strangers May Marry

    Anne Hampson

    SHE HAD NO CHOICE. Laura had practically raised little Mandy, but she had no legal claim to the homeless child. And now the authorities wanted to take Mandy away. Paul Penalis could help her to keep Mandy, but his price was marriage. Was the pr...

  • Marauder

    Cynthia Haseloff

  • Drought

    Ralph Hayes

  • Daphne Deane

    Grace L. Hiel

  • Easy Company and the Cardsharks

    John W. Howard

  • Murder on Safari

    Elspeth Huxley

    Canadian Superintendent Vachell, of Chania CID, is called to Lady Baradale's luxury Kenyan safari camp to investigate the disappearance of her jewels. He found himself ostensibly hired as assistant white hunter to the intrepid Danny de Mare. Within h...

  • Secrets of the SS

    Glenn B. Infield

  • Tangled Promises

    Amalia James

    DECEPTION AND DESIRE Prudence Edwards was ecstatic. She'd landed a dream assignment at MANHATTAN MONTHLY and was whisked off to a castle in the widely romantic Scottish Highlands. All she had to do was play a bold charade -- convince handsome, v...

  • The Skull Beneath the Skin

    P.D. James

    Actress Clarissa Lisle was famous for her ravishing beauty--and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now on the death-shrouded island of Courcy, her schemes win her a starring role in a nightmare in which she can trust no one--not her deceived husband; he...

  • The Golden Touch

    Robin James

    Spirited Kathy Carter is an all-American beauty hidden in a small town. She married her high-school sweetheart...only to lose him in a tragic accident. Now she's making it on her own. Then famous rock star Neil Stratton roars into town on his ...

  • Stormy Challenge

    Stephanie James

    Leya Brandon thought her heart was protected against Court Tremayne, but she had underestimated his determination to win her for his own. He set out on a campaign to challenge her heart and storm the barriers in her mind. And before he finished, ...

  • Hanky Panky

    Leslie Jarreau

  • Gotham Gore

    Stuart Jason

  • The Confucius Enigma

    Margaret Jones

  • Hidden Fires

    Laura Jordan (2)

    AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY TURNED, TEXAS FLAMED WITH RAILROADS, RANCHERS--AND A DARING NEW LOVE! When Innocent, raven-haired Lauren Holbrook left her home for a promising life in Texas she found heartbreak, not happiness, forced into a loveless mar...

  • Island of the Dawn // The Greek's Runaway Bride

    Penny Jordan

    Foolishly she'd never stopped loving him Leon had swept the young and innocent Chloe into marriage, but there was no happy ending for them, for there would always be Marisa. Marisa, obsessive and possessive about her stepbrother, implied a ...

  • Gemini Girls

    Marie Joseph

    It was a small Lancashire town on the eve of the General Strike. A town where the gap between the rich and poor was about to erupt into a bloody field of battle. To look at, Libby and Carrie Peel were identical twins. Libby's rebellious personality h...

  • Time's Dark Laughter

    James Kahn

    SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Five years have passed since Josh Green the Scribe and Beauty the Centaur set out across Southern California to find the creatures who had destroyed their homes and carried off their Human wives. Now Beauty's wife has abando...

  • The Seventh Game

    Roger Kahn

    The seventh game of the World Series is about to be played, and more than the world championship is at stake. A man''s destiny is on the line. Johnny Longboat, one of baseball''s greatest pitchers, is taking the mound for the New York Mohawks in w...

  • Hocus Focus

    Hal Kaufman

  • Mystery of the Winged Lion

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy receives an urgent message from her father Carson Drew, who is in River Heights, while she is touring in Europe with a group from Emerson College. She and her close friends Bess and George fly immediately to Venice, Italy. There, amid intrigue,...

  • The Elusive Heiress

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy must go to colorful Cheyenne, Wyoming, to solve her latest mystery involving the missing daughter of aging millionaire Arlo Winthrop. On the plane, Nancy and friend Ned meet Jennifer Buckman, a lonely ten-year-old. When the plane lands in Ch...

  • The Sinister Omen

    Carolyn Keene

  • Midas

    Piers Kelaart

  • Ladies of Lyndon

    Margaret Kennedy

  • Courtship Rite

    Donald Kingsbury

    On the inhospitable planet Geta, where only the strong survive, three creche-brothers of clan Kaiel are ordered by their ruler to ally with a heretical outlander and begin a ritual courtship whose outcome may be world changing...

  • New York Ain't America

    Ephraim Kishon

  • Breaking Up

    Norma Klein

  • The Cherokee Trail

    Louis L'Amour

    IT WAS NO WORK FOR A WOMAN. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally...

  • From This Beloved Hour

    Willa Lambert

    THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT AS SUN AND MOON... Jenny Mowry believed she could handle any complications that might arise on her archaeological assignment in Egypt. But she hadn't anticipated that two dynamic men would pursue her from the moment she a...

  • The Armour and the Veil

    Jeanne Lancour

    Self-willed, independent, the ravishing Adrienne is renowned throughout Aquitaine for her grace and beauty. But a pilgrimage lies before her, a treacherous path of hardship leading to a dangerous land...where slave traders from the black kingdoms of ...

  • The Book of Jewish Lists

    Ron Landau

  • Lupin Valley

    Roumelia Lane

    She had deceived him -- and now she loved him! Decorating the villa of the Marques del Alcazar was the plum assignment Terry Heatherton needed to launch an international career as an interior designer. But Terry hadn't counted on the busine...

  • Inherit the Wind

    Jerome Lawrence

  • The Compass Rose

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Circle of Love

    Syrell Rogovin Leahy

  • Missing Woman

    Michael Z. Lewin

    Indianapolis’s least employed PI heads downstate in search of a missing woman in this mystery from the “funny and brilliant†Shamus Awardâ€"winning author (The Wall Street Journal).   Facing insolvency and imminent eviction, private detect...

  • Sam's Car

    Barbro Lindgren

  • Skeletons in the Closet

    Elizabeth Linington

    'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneIvor Maddox has his hands more full than ever, with his wife Sue expecting a baby. To add to this, he also faces several of the most complex and frustrating cases of his career: the killing ...

  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The ...

  • The Brahmins

    Eileen Lottman

    The saga of the Stafford family, members of Boston's Beacon Hill society, traces the dynasty from their immigration to America, through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Depression, and World War II...

  • The Presence

    Yvonne MacManus

    Brigewater, Connecticut was such a lovely place to live, a quiet town where nothing ever happened.... Until little Emma Winthrop invented a playmate named Abigail... Until Abigail tuahgt Emma how to make strange things happened with her mind... Until...

  • Karen! Karen!

    Karen Mains

  • Killer Instinct

    Mark Mandell

  • Still Waters

    James Vance Marshall

    Determined to find a cure for rabies, a young doctor travels to Borneo to study a species of bat sacred to the Penan, whose peace-loving ways are threatened by the doctor's slaughter of the bats and a destructive landslide...

  • Hell at White Pass

    Cy Martin

    Grimes and Smith were two of the most vicious enemies west of the Mississippi. They'd crossed paths before, and once in Colorado, Grimes has outraged Smith by driving him out of town. Now in Skagway they met again....

  • Counterfeit Courtship

    Prudence Martin

    Dashing Justin Norville, Marquis of Develan, was the most notorious rake in London...and now an ardent suitor for her hand! The ton was all agog. How had Taci Blackwood succeeded where so many others had failed? Only Taci knew the truth: She had ...

  • Season of Mists

    Anne Mather

    "Our marriage was a farce," Piers said. Abby couldn't deny Piers's statement. Time had certainly proven that true, but the young Abby had loved him with all the passion within her. At that time she could not have foreseen the ...

  • Further Tales of the City

    Armistead Maupin

    The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halc...

  • Texas Empire

    Peter McCurtin

    Sundance was riding in the wildest corner of West Texas when he heard tell of a ruthless land baron called Hollis Bannister. As owner of the biggest ranch in the western half of the state, Bannister didn’t quite take to the idea of new settlers...

  • Body Count

    Peter McCurtin

  • The Shining Mountains

    Julian Messner

  • Cherokee Mission

    Karl Meyer

    Born a Cherokee, daughter of a wealthy land-owner, Agatha Lake fell in love with John Parker, the proud, young printer who came to court her. But when her people were uprooted by his, herded from their homes and driven like cattle on the bitter trail...

  • Mirage

    Margie Michaels

    Honey Caldwell's stubborn determination is like the unrelenting Nevada desert she loves. Widowed, she vows to close the dangerous abandoned mines that claimed her young husband's life. But Turner Jameson, sent by the government to "help" her cause, s...

  • Grail

    Philip Michaels

    THE SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRAIL HAS ENDED For nearly 2,000 years since the blood of the crucified Christ was collected in it, the most sacred relic of Christendom was hidden from the world. Sealed in a Vatican vault, it was kept secret even from the po...

  • Tish

    Cissi Miller

    SHE FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND INTO HIS ARMS. One moment Tish was hovering above the trees in her beautiful hot-air balloon. The next, she had plummeted to earth. But thanks to the Earl of Ardenly, a dreadful accident had been averted. Surely the ...

  • Autumn

    A.G. Mojtabai

    This is a piece for solo voice, the voice of Will Ross, recently widowed. For years he’s worked on refurbishing his vacation cottage to be a retirement home for himself and his wife, Helen. As soon as he settles in, Helen dies. As the book opens, W...

  • Space and Beyond

    R.A. Montgomery

    GET READY TO HURTLE THROUGH SPACE -- AND BEYOND! You were born on a spaceship traveling between galaxies. An experienced intergalactic adventurer, you are now on a mission to a distant planet. Suddenly on your screen you see an alien spacecraft --...

  • Impetuous Surrogate

    Alice Morgan

    He was a playboy tycoon -- a sharp, ruthless womanizer who made it his business to hire a woman to bear his heir--so no one could tie him down for good. Dee Ann Wagner didn't meet Derek Howell until she awoke in his bed with only a shaming memory ...

  • Forbidden Surrender

    Carole Mortimer

    "It's not a situation. It's a bloody mess!" Dominic was right, and Sara had to agree that for them there could be no solution. In England as a visitor, Sara had been embarrassed at being mistaken for someone else, even by that p...

  • Skin Deep

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    AIR RAID Just as world leaders are flocking to New York to discuss world peace, someone takes off with the U.S. Navy's latest super-weapon -- a top secret, atom-armed jet bomber that can escape radar detection. Remo and Chiun launch an investigation...

  • All Else Confusion

    Betty Neels

    Annis Fothergills disliked him on sight Jake Royle was too good-looking, too rich and too self-assured. Then a sudden shared grief broke down Annis's defenses against his attractiveness. Jake's sudden marriage proposal made no pretense of love....

  • No Future, No Memory

    Richard O'Brien

  • Spunky's Diary

    Janette Oke

    Spunky is like most other puppies--curious and frisky, and always creating mischief. Even though he stumbles into trouble a lot, he still manages to warm his way into the hearts of his family. They can't help but love their silly dog. But one day, S...

  • A Dangerous Glamour

    Marc Olden

    A world where beauty is bought and sold - and often shattered! When two New York modeling agencies compete for the world''s hottest fashion plates, the battle can get pretty dirty. Bankrolled by a wealthy playboy, desired by more than one fabulous...

  • Inside UFO 54-40

    Edward Packard

    CAPTURED BY A UFO! CAN YOU ESCAPE? You're aboard a supersonic jet, high above the Atlantic. Suddenly a huge, gleaming white cylinder shoots out of the clouds. The next thing you know you are inside the galactic ship Rakma -- captured by the all-p...

  • Mystery of Chimney Rock // The Curse of the Haunted Mansion

    Edward Packard

    WILL YOU UNLOCK THE MYSTERY OF CHIMNEY ROCK? On your vacation in Connecticut, you notice a huge, empty stone house at the top of a hill. Some of the windows are boarded up. Some are covered with vines. The old house, known as "Chimney Rock:' is so...

  • Mystery of Chimney Rock

    Edward Packard

  • Heather's Song

    Diana Palmer

    Cole Everett watched Heather Shaw grow from a child into a girl hovering on the edge of womanhood. She had a body ripe for love, a heart ripe for a man's invasion. She sang songs of love, a love she didn't fully understand, but with Cole's help s...

  • Prelude to a Song

    Margaret Pargeter

    What made her so aware of this man? Even when they'd been strangers Alana had known there was something tangible between her and Guy. It frightened and fascinated her, and while she was grateful for his help in paving her way in a new city, sh...

  • Storm Cycle

    Margaret Pargeter

    They brought out the worst in each other Zoe had known Reece Macadam since she was a child. He had provided comfort and encouragement and taught her about the sea and sailing--but damned if he was going to run her life now! She considered his t...

  • The Peasants Are Revolting

    Brant Parker

  • Return to Vietnam

    Don Pendleton

    Mercy Mission: POW As Bolan jumped into the blackness, he thought of that terrible day thirteen years earlier when The Executioner left the war-torn jungles of Vietnam for home, to bury his parents and sister. Now he was returning as Colonel Phoen...

  • Father's Love

    Joseph Perez

  • Marriage to a Stranger

    Dorothy Phillips

    Could she agree to the terms? Could she marry a cold, arrogant stranger--and pretend to all the world that she truly loved him? Once, everything in Molly's being had shrieked "No!" Yet she had agreed. She had adored her father, and the...

  • The Game

    Lyn Phillips

  • The Woods

    David Plante

    As Daniel Francoeur completes his freshman year at college and begins his sophomore year, he recalls his last summer before going to college, an almost mystical idyll spent at the Francoeur's summer home...

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 11

    Pocket Books

  • The New Visions

    Frederik Pohl

  • Nebula Award Stories Sixteen

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Devoted Friends

    Joe Poyer

    Here's a thrilling and bittersweet story of the unlikely romance between an American playboy diplomat and a daughter of the doomed Tsar Nicholas II. Their love is born in the blood of revolution and matures as they flee for their lives across the win...

  • Bahama Rapture

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    IT BEGAN WITH A KISS... a sweet innocent kiss on a warm moonlit night as they sailed for the Bahamas. When their lips met, all innocence disappeared-and beautiful Raven discovered the meaning of pleasure and the fires of desire in a handsome stran...

  • Old Mother Hubbard

    Alice Provensen

  • The Most Welcome Visitor

    Robert M. Quackenbush

  • Sheriff Sally Gopher and the Thanksgiving Caper

    Robert M. Quackenbush

  • Charge Nurse

    Patricia Rae

    In the intensive care unit of Preston Hospital there is no day of night, only the life and death struggle to keep the critically ill alive. And amidst the never ending emergencies and non stop tension is Kay Strom, charge nurse of the floor....

  • Trauma Nurse

    Patricia Rae

    A specialist in emergency medicine, Kay Strom files in the medicopter to wherever duty calls. From battered wives to newborn babies, Kay works desperately to save lives -- too often forgetting she has one of her own!...

  • Cracker Factory

    Joyce Rebeta-Burditt

    Published in 1977, Joyce Burditt-Rebeta's THE CRACKER FACTORY was one of the great bestsellers of the decade, going through at least 14 printings by 1980. There's a reason for that: it is one of the most compulsively readable novels I have encountere...

  • The Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club

    B.P. Reiter Jr.

  • Strictly Business

    Gloria Renwick

    In one searing glance merchant prince Chad Butler took total inventory of his newest employee. Katherine Dunn was shaken by their first encounter; determined to keep him-- and all other men-- at arm's length. She had been burned once and had vowed, "...

  • Winners and Losers

    Jodie Rhodes

  • The Firebrands

    J.T. Richards