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New Books List: 325 titles

  • Return Trips

    Alice Adams

    Alice Adams has been widely hailed for her beautiful writing and for her ability to bring alive every human emotion. In this new collection of short stories -- her first since the dazzling novel Superior Women -- one of today's most important and adm...

  • Stone Angel

    Marvin Albert

    Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic--though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. H...

  • The House of Kanze

    Nobuko Albery

  • Fantomas

    Marcel Allain

    “One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is h...

  • Tangling With Webb

    Laine Allen

    They're writers, neighbors, and dear friends, determined not to spoil things with a romantic entanglement. Then a double case of writer's block drives whimsical Cristy McKnight to a rash wager with wickedly handsome, infuriatingly smug Webste...

  • The Tullagindi Rodeo

    Kerry Allyne

    Who cared if he liked her or not! Marti couldn't envision life beyond the city limits. When her father insisted she represent him at a rodeo in the Australian bush country, she felt banished to the ends of the earth. Not wanting to disappoi...

  • Heroic Visions Ii

    Jessica Amanda

  • First the Good News

    Judie Angell

    After weeks of plotting, five best friends finally come face-to-face with TV's fastest rising new star. Nobody ever believed they would be able to pull off an interview, but after trying every trick in the book, they finally decide to try the direct ...

  • A Matter of Honor

    Jeffrey Archer

    When Colonel Scott dies, his will points the way to clearing the unspoken secret that shadowed his retirement and turned him from a WW II hero into a disgraced and broken man. It is up to Adam to follow. The path leads to a Swiss bank and a vault, ...

  • The Keepsake

    Evelyn Stewart Armstrong

    "Vienna is like a beautiful, juicy peach fully ripe -- beginning to rot." Ordinarily, Lady Charlotte Branthom would have seen only Vienna's glittering, giddy surface. But this was no pleasure trip. After her father's mysterious death, Charlotte ...

  • Opal

    Helen Ashfield

    WAS HE HER DREAM-OR HER DESTINY? The moment she saw him, golden-haired Opal Shannon knew she would always love Edward Adare, the young Earl of Kynston. But then cruel fate tore them apart, casting Opal into the grim horrors of the workhouse. Determi...

  • Spring's Awakening

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Cousin Gail had told a whopper But Maggie Sinclair didn't know it. If Maggie had known, she would have been calmer during the family reunion on her Kansas City farm. She might not have fluttered nervously from group to group, avoiding a man who de...

  • My Heart's Desire

    June Masters Bacher

    When life takes an unexpected turn, Rachel finds the love she has always longed for... A deadly hush covered the Earth. Only the fiery smoke and eerie twilight created by the blazing inferno remained of what was once the peak of Superstition Moun...

  • Paranoid Prophet

    William D. Backus

  • Summer's Storm

    Patti Beckman

    As a cartoonist for the politically outspoken Austin newspaper, Leida Adams was well aware of the steamy nature of Texas politics. Her work won much acclaim, as she anonymously drew the biting, satirical cartoons of the politicians whom the newspaper...

  • Hanukkah

    June Behrens

  • Island of Illusions

    Jackie Black

    Karen Meisling was trapped on a tropical island -- with a man she hardly knew! What she did know of Solo Thomas scared her. He loved excitement and danger; all she wanted was a quiet, safe life. With Solo she was certain never to find it! Working on ...

  • Strawberry Summer

    Cynthia Blair

    Susan and Christine Pratt are thrilled about landing summer jobs as counselors at Camp Pinewood. But soon they discover that the summer won't be as carefree as they'd expected. Alan Reed, the handsome son of the camp's owners, tells the girls that so...

  • Sullivan vs. Sullivan

    Jillian Blake

    All right ... maybe she was resentful. While assistant D.A. Tip Sullivan hobnobbed with Boston's elite, she, Kerry Sullivan (no relation), kept his seat warm in the tiny law office where his father awaited the return of the prodigal son. But when ...

  • The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza

    Lawrence Block

    Bernie and his friend Carolyn were planning to rob the lovely West Side brownstone...until they discovered they had been beaten to the punch. Fortunately, the first burglars left behind some decent goods...emerald earrings, a Piaget watch--and a valu...

  • Blue Bayou

    Parris Afton Bonds

    The du Plessis--their blood, their pride, their passion tamed the wilderness that was Louisiana They were a proud, aristocratic family--the flower of France. Until a powerful nobleman sought to destroy them, and they were forced to flee for their ...

  • The Architect of Sleep

    Steven R. Boyett

    Jim Bentley stumbles into a strange parallel universe, a world in which evolution has taken a very different direction, and finds himself playing a fateful role in the war efforts of the Architect of Sleep...

  • Montana Rides Again

    Max Brand

    The Montana Kid, El Keed south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protect...

  • Nobody Ever Sees You Eat Tuna Fish

    David Brenner

  • Escape from Tenopia

    Rick Brightfield

    Reaching the main continent of Kabran on the planet Tenopia, the reader must overcome Maglan space pirates, flesh-eating Rangs, escape-proof dungeons, and ruthless slavemasters to find the galactic patrol station...

  • River of Time

    David Brin

    THE RIVER OF TIME brings together eleven of David Brin's finest shorter works, including "The Crystal Spheres," winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and four new stories published here for the first time, each with an afterword by the autho...

  • Paybacks

    Christopher Britton

    Sergeant Roger Markey, a drill instructor whose only sin is that he cares too much, is charged with the murder of a recruit in his platoon by a military command in need of a public relations conviction...

  • Unheavenly Angel

    Annette Broadrick

    THE TROUBLE WITH ANGEL Blake Carlyle wouldn't have chosen Angel Bennington for a wife if she were the last woman on earth. He needed an obedient corporate wife, not a capricious bohemian artist. But their union was inevitable, due to a comi...

  • Happily Ever After

    Carole Buck

    Lily Bancroft is dressed as Snow White, but she's sure Dylan Chase is no prince. As powerful executor of the Chase family fortune, he controls the money she needs. As a ruthlessly attractive male, he embodies the power to dominate, which she'...

  • Snap Revolution: James Fenton in the Philippines

    Bill Buford

  • A Time of Innocence

    Warren Burke

  • Little Caesar

    W.R. Burnett

    LITTLE CAESARRico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him. They get away, but Vettori is shocked. He had told ...

  • Pirate Royale

    Cordia Byers

    Royale Carrington refused to be the ward of King Charles and be married as he saw fit. So she took to the high seas as captain of her own pirate ship -- vowing to avenge her father's death at the hands of Spanish conquistadores. But everything cha...

  • The Empty Nest // Out of the Nest

    Elizabeth Cadell

    In the village of Outercrane a wedding reception is taking place after the marriage of George and Stella Deepley's youngest daughter. Stella is making plans for a holiday to enjoy the sights and relax in the sun of southern Italy. Eager to rep...

  • A Man for Amy

    Blair Cameron

    Amy Hagen had desperately wanted her marriage to work. But Craig Davisson couldn't give her what she really needed--a home, a family, and a life of security. Craig said he needed time. As far as Amy was concerned, his time had run out. After the divo...

  • The Junkyard Dog

    Robert Campbell

    BLOOD-RED CHICAGO BLUES Chicago is Jimmy Flannery's kind of town. A tough Irishman with street smarts, he's part of a political machine that runs on favors and friendships. Flannery's particular piece of the patronage pie is the 27th Ward, and any...

  • Murder Is Pathological

    P.M. Carlson

    The exploding wastebasket is a prank, but slaughtered lab rats have graduate students Maggie Ryan, Monica Bauer and the rest of the lab on edge. When the custodian is murdered, actor Nick O’Connor goes undercover to investigate, a protective gestur...

  • The Gift of Happiness

    Amanda Carpenter

    She had to keep him away from her Katherine Marie Farlough was young, beautiful and the daughter of a very rich and distinguished man. But inside that gilded cage, Kate was a mere pawn in her father's life. The ruthless Kentuckian cared mor...

  • Jenna's Choice

    Marisa Carroll

    Jenna Macklin couldn't deny her nature Something in her needed to help. It was why Jenna was a physician, why she worked in the emergency room of a big-city hospital -- and why she'd come back to Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, to search for...

  • My Wild Irish Rogue

    Helen Carter

    Nothing in her well-ordered existence prepares sociologist Ingrid Peterson for darkly handsome, vibrantly compelling Liam Clare. He waylays her on the road, appearing to be an earthy farmer. He invades her bedroom, promising to warm her toes. He purs...

  • The Samurai Kill

    Nick Carter

  • Walk Into Tomorrow

    Rosemary Carter

    Interest in a new man was not part of her plans After her traumatic experience, Cathy was convinced her newly acquired teahouse in the Canadian Rockies was the place to start life afresh. Perhaps it was drastic action, but Cathy wanted time to ...

  • Cody's Army

    Jim Case

    A four-man team of anti-terrorist specialists led by John Cody is called in to rescue the hostages aboard a jet hijacked to Lebanon and destroy the terrorist killers who are holding the plane....

  • Suspects

    William J. Caunitz

    Brooklyn. Early June. A man strolls into a candy store, pulls out a sawed-off shotgun, and blows away two people: owner Yetta Zimmerman and her customer, NYPD Lt. Joe Gallagher. Suddenly it is a very hot summer for Detective Lt. Tony Scanlon. For thi...

  • Beauty and the Beast and Other Tales of Enchantment

    Rigie Jane Chambless

    Tells the stories of a merchant's daughter who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious Beast, a princess who meets an enchanted frog, and a princess who saves her six brothers, who were turned into swans...

  • Baja Run

    Lisbeth Chance

    When Anna Michelotti returns to a small island in the Sea of Cortz to bury her beloved grandfather, a conversation overheard by chance convinces her that her fiance is involved in smuggling illegal aliens from Mexico...

  • No Blade of Grass

    John Christopher

    At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been...

  • Dragon Dance

    John Christopher

    Simon and Brad face their greatest danger yet -- and discover the secret of the fireball -- in the third book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.When Simon and Brad were caught in th...

  • The Beans of Egypt, Maine

    Carolyn Chute

    A novel of a down-and-out New England family that “seizes the reader on its opening page with . . . a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own” (Newsweek).   There are families like the Beans all over America. They live ...

  • The Parish: A Satire

    John Clare

    This is a single, long (2000 lines) poem which has never been published. Although Clare was a devout Anglican the work is a powerful attack on the abuses of the clergy, the dangers of religious fanaticism and religious hypocrisy....

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Pippa Clarke

    She had everything she wanted -- except love Cassandra Murray's career was definitely on the rise. At twenty-six she was a successful journalist for a prominent London newspaper. She was independent and influential. And she thought she had it ...

  • Spacecamp

    Joe Claro

  • Quester's Endgame

    Jo Clayton

    In the conclusion of the "Diadem Saga," Aleytys, wearer of the enchanted diadem, comes to the end of her interstellar search for her mother, Shareem, and must face ancient enemies to claim her heritage among the superhuman Vrya...

  • For Love or Money

    Marion Smith Collins

    He met all her criteria When Lauren Wilding set out to choose the perfect husband, she knew exactly what she was looking for. He had to be intelligent, of good character, impressive-looking ... and filthy rich. Richard Gannon had all those qual...

  • Between the Worlds

    John Byrne Cooke

    In the late nineteenth-century West, conflict between beleaguered Indians and white settlers and ranchers draws all into an apocalyptic clash--including a young advocate of Indian rights, a former army scout, a Sioux chief, and a young white man rais...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Linda A. Cooney

    Mollie Traister falls in love with the unknown person sending her messages over the senior class computer, but when she arranges a meeting with the message writer, she discovers that he's Scott Newmark, a boy she can't stand...

  • Homemade Love

    J. California Cooper

    In one of the best-loved volumes of her work, J. California Cooper tells exuberant tales full of wonder at the mystery of life and the hardness of fate. Awed, bedeviled, bemused, all of Cooper's characters are borne up by the sheer power of life itse...

  • Summer Heat!

    M.E. Cooper

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Lori Copeland

    Fritzi Taylor had always wanted a water bed -- but she never imagined it would come equipped with someone to keep her warm! It all began on New Year's Eve when she sped to the rescue of Ryan E. Majors, charming even when inebriated. One day later...

  • White Meat

    Peter Corris

    He needs a nice smooth job, something to pay the bills - and keep his glass filled. But smooth this one isn't. Ted Tarleton is a very rich bookie whose beautiful, spoiled daughter, Noni, is missing. Tarleton wants Hardy to find her. The logical place...

  • Cinnamon Hearts

    Christine Hella Cott

    HE WAS FAR TOO TEMPTING! Never would Marielle Bond, owner of a successful fitness studio in San Diego, have imagined herself falling in love with the heir to a candy empire! But here she was, hopelessly stuck on Cedric Greenleaf. She tried to p...

  • Robot Trouble

    Bruce Coville

    Pursuing the two dangerous spies out to sabotage their parents' top-secret artificial intelligence project, the six members of the A.I. Gang find themselves imprisoned in a robot rocket bound for outer space...

  • Too Late to Die

    Bill Crider

    Peaceful rural life is shattered in Blacklin County, Texas, when Jeanne Clinton is found murdered in her home. Turns out the talkative woman was the late-night confidant of several men in the community, who happened by the house while her husband wor...

  • Silent Killer

    David Cross

    John Sinclair. Medal of Honor. Black Belt. The savage fury of the West meets the ancient power of the East in one awesome warrior-for-hire... CHANT. Genius of disguise, master of intrigue, adept in the killing arts. In every government there's at le...

  • Lord of the Nile

    Peter Danielson

    An Epic scorched by the desert's fires, inflamed with ancient wars and timeless loves. A new generation of Children of the Lion--branded at birth by the indelible mark of Cain--find that their secret skills put them in the vanguard of a desperate ar...

  • The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks

    Robertson Davies

    “Davies introduces us to his alter ego . . . A humorous and insightful picture of postwar Canadian life as seen through the eyes of a delightful eccentric.” -- Library Journal   As editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner...

  • Onassis

    L.J. Davis

    Portrays the lives and business triumphs of Aristotle Onassis, who built a tanker fleet larger than most navies, and his sole heiress, Christina, who contested her father's will, pensioned off her stepmother, and seized power in the Onassis empire...

  • Babar the King

    Jean de Brunhoff

    This third title about Babar and his family follows the elephants as they build a magnificent city: Celesteville. Life is peaceful and contented, everyone has a job to do, and celebrations are frequent. But one fateful day a snake bites the Old Lady ...

  • Wartime Writings, 1939-1944

    Antoine De Saint-Exupery

    Featuring the meditations, letters, and autobiographical fragments of a man torn between his horror of war, his sense of duty, and his feelings for his country, this collection reveals the physical and spiritual journey...

  • The Hidden Land

    Pamela Dean

    The five cousins are still trapped in the Secret Country, and must play their parts. When the King is poisoned, Ted-Prince Edward-must take the throne, even though he has no idea how to rule a country, battle magic, or inspire followers.  Soon e...

  • First, Best and Only

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was a hard man to forget... The last thing Marni Lange wanted was to appear on the cover of a national magazine. Instinct told her she was making a huge mistake...and when she walked into the photographer's studio she knew she'd been ri...

  • The Kingdoms of Terror

    Joe Dever

    YOU are Lone wolf--the last Kai Master of Sommerlund. Civil war rages in Helgedad where your mortal enemies--the Darklords--struggle for control of the Black City. You have vowed to restore the Kai to their former glory and now seek the Lorestone ...

  • Miss Romney Flies Too High

    Marian Devon

    LORD PETHERBRIDGE LAID DOWN THE LAW: MARRY HIS ACTRESS DAUGHTER OR FORSAKE HIS FORTUNE! The old gentleman had taken it into his head to leave his considerable fortune to his illegitimate daughter Sarah Romney. with pious Lady Petherbridge none the...

  • Grover's Bad, Awful Day

    Anna H. Dickson

  • Sand Castles

    Meg Dominique

    Could love defeat her restlessness? Cris Waring was immediately drawn to Tom Hunter, the outgoing manager of Florida's Hotel Fandango. The signals he sent her way were unmistakable and irresistible. But clearly, Tom was the wrong kind of ma...

  • The Last Annual Slugfest

    Susan Dunlap

    FIRST PRIZE: MURDER It was an honor. Or so the residents of Henderson, California claimed. To be a judge for the annual Slugfest, a celebration of the lowly California slug, meant witnessing the slug weigh-ins and slug races and then having the ho...

  • Kid at Heart

    Aimee Duvall

    Where Lisa Fleming goes, chaos follows -- as toy company owner Chase Sanger quickly learns when he hires her to design a new line of playthings. Suddenly he's bombarded by mechanical marvels, conducting market research with six-year-olds, and una...

  • The Trigger Master

    J.T. Edson

    Grattan, Texas is a bad place to get an education -- and a worse place to be a teacher. One by one, the school masters and marms were given a choice: Take a permanent recess...or a bullet in the brain. In no time at all, the schoolhouse was empty. Bu...

  • Checkpoint Orinoco

    Alice Ekert-Rotholz

  • The Master File

    Richard Elliott

  • Girl in White

    Julie Ellis

    She was warned to leave the lush plantation, but an impossible love compelled her to stay. The Plantation. It was an incredibly lovely place, but young Diane Kendall soon sensed the passions seething around her, hidden emotions as primitive as...

  • Lone Star and the Gunpowder Cure

    Wesley Ellis

    IT BEGAN WITH MURDER ... AND THE ONLY CURE WAS GUNPOWDER AND LEAD A Starbuck employee had been ambushed. Jessie and Ki rode for the Arizona Territory just in time to see the burial. But it didn't take long for the Lone Star team to dig up the real r...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Suzanne Ellison

    She was his last resort The battered old envelope delivered to Annie Winston Rossi had seemed harmless enough. But its contents shocked her. "Hummingbird Hill" was all it said -- the code that told her Cody Hale, her teenage sweetheart,...

  • Flashpoint

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    THEY WERE OUT TO TRAP A KILLER and Ariel Spence was the bait. Ryan Jones was assigned to keep an eye on her without her knowledge, but in a small Montana town that was easier said than done. They became uneasy housemates, afraid to reveal too m...

  • Longarm and the Great Cattle Kill

    Tabor Evans

  • Emperor's New Clothes and Other Nonsense Stories

    Linda C. Falken

    From nursery tales to tales of adventure, Golden Junior Classics are rich, colorful books that children will love to read again and again. The Emperor's New Clothes is a funny story about the folly of a king who will not admit he has made a mistake. ...

  • The Search for Anna Fisher

    Florence Fisher

  • Lessons in Love

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    A MOST SHOCKING PROPOSAL Miss Diana Forsythe was prepared for almost anything but this from Sir Sabin Mallory. Her heart had melted at her first meeting with this handsome lord newly arrived in London, and she was prepared to be his guide in the ...

  • Satin Fires

    Rebecca Flanders

    Virginia, 1773 THE FOX Arabella Winters was breathless with excitement at the thought of her marriage to Phillip Everett. She had harbored a secret love for the dashing rogue since childhood. But her joy quickly turned to revulsion when she met h...

  • Walk Through Cold Fire

    Cin Forshay-Lunsford

  • The Red Thumb Mark

    R. Austin Freeman

    Before Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan and Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, there was Dr. Thorndyke, the first ever fictional forensic scientist.The only evidence against young Reuben Hornby in a jewel theft is his thumb print smeared in bloo...

  • Tender Fortune

    Judith E. French

    LOVE'S CHERISHED TREASURE Trembling with fear, Charity Brown let her shapeless woolen gown fall to the ships deck and, with a silent prayer dived naked into the dark waters of Chesapeake Bay. In the distance lay the moonlit shores of the American ...

  • Murder in C Major

    Sara Hoskinson Frommer

    OVERTURE TO DEATH The Oliver Civic Symphony is just another small town orchestra, a gathering spot for local amateur musicians. It has weekly rehearsals, punch and cookies, and colorful people, and now, it has murder. An oboist suddenly drops dead...

  • Name above Every Name

    Herbert C. Gabhart

  • Fate is the Hunter

    Ernest K. Gann

    Ernest K. Gann’s classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. “Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr...

  • The Secret Generations

    John E. Gardner

    The first volume of The Secret Generations Triology The Secret Generations is drawn from the history of Britain’s intelligence and security services. Through the story of one family, the Railtons, whose lives become caught up in some of the grea...

  • The Children's Bach

    Helen Garner

    The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers • "It’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagin...

  • Secret of the Royal Treasure

    Carol Gaskin

    IT IS THE YEAR 1599. You have traveled back to England in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. You are in an arena outside London when you see a huge bear in chains, fighting a pack of dogs. You can wait and see whether Queen Elizabeth comes to watch he...

  • A Stricken Field

    Martha Gellhorn

    Martha Gellhorn was one of the first -- and most widely read -- female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she ...

  • Summer of My Indian Prince

    Joan Merrill Gerber

    Spending the summer with her wealthy, high-society relatives on Park Avenue, Brooklyn teenager Riva Lightman is attracted to their boarder, the charming and exotic Ravi Singh, an Indian prince, despite their differences...

  • Pickle Puss

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It's August, and Emily has big plans at the library. She's going to read lots of books and tack a paper fish next to her name for each one. Then Dawn Bosco says she can read more books than Emily. Not only that, both Emily and Dawn want to keep Pickl...

  • Pas De Deux

    Louisa Gillette

    Lovely Tatiana danced into Roland's arms-and into a reckless world of pleasure and desire! In czarist Russia, at the Imperial Ballet School, beautiful Tatiana rebelled against the hated custom that would make her the unwilling mistress of a wealthy...

  • A Death for a Doctor

    E.X. Giroux

    After the Foster family is murdered, barrister Robert Forsythe's secretary, posing as a Foster relative, discovers that almost everyone in the village had a motive for murder and that she could be next...

  • Night before Christmas

    Golden Books

  • A Woman's Place

    Marita Golden

    The compelling, beautifully told story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through the changes, the joys, and the tears of the coming years....

  • Hidden Treasures

    Emma Goldrick

    They married for money neither of them wanted Penelope Bloom Harris had chosen the dilapidated Great Salt Marsh as the last place that anyone would look for her, her plans were just to escape her Uncle Henry until her twenty-first birthday, when s...

  • Touch Of Genius

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

    What would you do if... You and your best friend were calmly walking along the beach and you found an old cola bottle bobbing in the water? What would you do if... You pulled the cork out of the bottle and out popped the best-looking genie you had ev...

  • Murder Straight Up

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Jack Dwyer, ex-cop turned part-time actor working as a security guard at the Channel 3 station, is pitted against both the world of television journalism and a criminal underworld when anchorman David Curtis is poisoned...

  • Sweet Talk

    Eileen Goudge

  • Devil's Mistress

    Heather Graham

    A MAN POSSESSED If there was truly a devil who could lure and seduce the innocent, Lord Sloan Treveryan was that man. Captain of the Sea Hawk and bound to the king's business, he might have been a lord but he was no gentleman. He carried Brianna o...

  • Shadows

    Charles L. Grant

  • August People

    R. Graves

  • Sweet Promise

    Ginna Gray

    Being the daughter of celebrity Claire Drummond was not easy. Everyone expected a shallow display of glamour when they first met Joanna. And thought Joanna as just an assistant to a U.S. Senator, she wanted to be taken seriously. So when her boss...

  • Foolish Pleasure

    Jennifer Greene

    ALLURE OF THE FORBIDDEN At the tender age of seventeen, Alex Carson had swept Stephanie Randolph off her feet. They were an unlikely combination--a young woman of breeding and a car mechanic -- but Stephanie had been enraptured. Alex was tough, se...

  • Lassiter Tough

    Loren Zane Grey

  • Knock, Knock! Who's There?

    Sally Grindley

  • The Passionate Solution

    Jean Hager

    Private eye Samantha Preston collided with Tobin Fitzgerald the moment she walked into his law office. She was determined to win the handsome lawyer's business -- and save her own. Reluctantly he agreed to let her handle his case, a family matte...

  • My Life with Chagall

    Virginia Haggard

    Covering the years 1945-1952 during which the author was the master painter's lover and companion, this memoir recalls Chagall's years in New York, his methods of work, and reminiscences about his early life in Russia...

  • Body Armor 2000

    Joe Haldeman

    CONTENTS: Introduction (Haldeman); Contact! (Drake), The Warbots (Todd), The Scapegoat (Cherryh), The Last Crusade (Smith), Hired Man (Meredith), Early Model (Sheckley), In the Bone (Dickson), The Chemically Pure Warriors (Lang), Right to Life (Easto...

  • Apaches

    Oakley Hall

    Patrick Cutler, a cavalry officer who is criticized for his friendship with the Army's Indian trackers, leads the pursuit of Caballito, an Apache chief who, with a band of renegades, has left the reservation...

  • Plain Jane

    Rosemary Hammond

    Plain Jane, maybe -- but no easy conquest Jane Fairchild, garden editor for Northwest Life, described herself as unglamorous and reserved. It suited her just fine...until she met Blake Bannister. As Seattle's most eligible male, Blake was o...

  • A Fair Exchange

    Palma Harcourt

    Derek Almourn, a member of the British Embassy in Washington, marries a United States Democratic senator's daughter who belongs to the People for Peace and Freedom movement and is staunchly determined to free her brother, a POW in Vietnam...

  • The Gentleman Brawler

    J.D. Hardin

  • Coral Island

    Elaine Harper

  • Timor Mortis

    Will Harriss

  • The Power

    Betsy Haynes

  • Out of Love

    Eileen Hehl

  • Into the Valley of Death

    Evelyn Hervey

    On Friday next, pub owner Jack Steadman would hang for the murder of Alfie Goode, drunkard and ne'er-do-well. The case was open-and-shut to everyone but Miss Harriet Unwin, who had less than a week to prove that Jack, a Crimean war hero, was inno...

  • The Worth Inheritance

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    A DEVILISH DECISION According to handsome, charming Lord Francis Glennon, his brother Crispin was a rake and a seducer whose desire to marry young Lady Phillipa Worth was no more than a need for funds for his infamous activities at the gaming tabl...

  • Texas Gold

    Joan Hohl

    LONE STAR LOVE West Texas was everything fashion model Barbara Holcomb had expected: hot, barren and wholly uninviting. If it hadn't been for the pleading letter from her Aunt Ellie, she would never have left the comfort of New York. But then she ...

  • Once in Love With Amy

    Nancy Holder

    Devastatingly handsome actor Derek Morgan was Romeo, a highwayman, and James Bond all rolled into one, and Amy van Teiler felt that her most romantic fantasies had come to life when he led her onto the dance floor for a fairy-tale waltz. The theme o...

  • Hill Smoke

    L.P. Holmes

  • Crisis in Space

    Michael Holt

    The Doctor needs YOU to save the galaxy from the bizarre manipulations of a madman in Crisis in Space. The Doctor's assistant, Turlough, intercepts a message from Outer Space. Garth Hadeez, the Overlord of the gruesome Golons, has instructed his s...

  • One of Us Is Wrong

    Samuel Holt

    Actor Sam Holt has packed in Packard, the TV detective he played for several years to much acclaim and lots and lots of money. But success has had its downside: Holt is so closely identified with Packard that he can’t get hired to play anyone els...

  • Time After Time

    Kay Hooper

    At first he heard only her voice in the darkness. Then, when the lights clicked on, Noah Thorne knew he was in for something just a little wild! The revelation that interior designer Alex Bennet had been a lion tamer for four years both delighted h...

  • Friends and Rivals

    Mary Hooper

    Clare is delighted when she hears that her cousin Angie will be coming to stay for a year until she discovers that Angie is a beautiful tiny blond who attracts the attentions of the boy for whom Clare secretly yearns...

  • Gilly's Secret

    Ellen Howard

  • Campbell's Kingdom

    Hammond Innes

    A daring young man heads to the oil fields of Canada for a last crack at making his fortune in this tale from “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” (Financial Times). Adrift since the end of World War II, Bruce Weatherall has wasted year...

  • Stolen Kisses

    Barbara Jacobs

  • The Right Moves

    Arlene James

    WILD HEARTS... It was plain to Angie Faulkner that Rafferty Sharpstone was a mean son-of-a-steer-wrestling roper. But he wasn't going to get rid of her without a hassle. She'd sunk every penny into Strawberry, her prizewinning roan. The...

  • Try to Remember

    Vanessa James

    Together they searched for Isobel's past After the car accident impaired her memory, Isobel St. Aubyn had only haunting flashbacks and the evasive accounts of her family to bring back her past. Until she met Eliot Richardson. Torn between h...

  • Always

    Iris Johansen

    It began as a daring, desperate scenario to flush out a terrorist, a man whose crimes were serious enough for Sedikhan security chief Clancy Donahue to kidnap a stunning American singer to act as bait. A man who'd never known any true lover but d...

  • Secret Love

    Nancy John

    BIDDING FOR LOVE By day they were enemies, rival experts for the world's two most famous auction houses, going after the same account. But by night, Paula and Quinn savored a love that knew no allegiances. It was against their better judgmen...

  • To Jess, With Love and Memories

    Norma Johnston

    This is the second in a series about a large family in Alexandria, Virginia. When fifteen-year-old Jessamyn discovers that she is adopted, she is very upset and needs help from her family to cope with the revelation....

  • Ambitions

    Harriet Katz

    The lives of Janine, Jason, Cynthia, and Allen, four music students, collide when their friendship is transformed into a fierce rivalry as they pursue fame and fortune in the glamorous and competitive world of classical music...

  • Duffy

    Dan Kavanagh

    In the grimy underbelly of London, private detective Duffy takes on an extortion case and finds himself pitted against one of the city’s most dangerous crime lordsRosie McKechnie was alone when the two men entered her home, tied her to a chair,...

  • Fiddle City

    Dan Kavanagh

    Private detective Duffy must discover who's been stealing shipments from a freight company near Heathrow Airport, and why, during his first day on the job, someone left a wad of pound notes in his locker...

  • Just One Look

    Barbara Kaye

    HER INHERITANCE CLOUDED HER FUTURE Lisa Canaday's mother was a renowned artist--and she was going blind. Fiercely protective of her mother's remaining time to create, Lisa joined her on secluded St. Angela island. But Lisa's grandmother was de...

  • Tender Treason

    Karen Keast

    Wealthy, elusive, dictatorial-Bristisher Nyles Ryland's reputation precedes him. Though his piratical scowl and blatantly ravishing eyes electrify insurance investigator Lauren Kane, she has no intention of playing this week's lover to Grand Cayman's...

  • Morgan

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Cimarron and the Hired Guns

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Driving the Horse

    Charles Kellogg

    All aspects of equestrian driving from choosing best breeds and apparatus for twoand four-wheeled vehicles according to use, type, maintenance, purpose and restoration to driving techniques and safety...

  • The Firelings

    Carol Kendall

  • Colours Aloft

    Alexander Kent

    The year is 1803. The ship is the Argonaute, a prize plundered from France. Its captain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho, must sail through dangerous waters toward a final battle with the Argonaute's former captain, Admiral Jobert. Sailing with an i...

  • The Outcasts

    Leo Kessler

  • The Nabob's Widow

    April Kihlstrom

    THE HIGH PRICE OF WEALTH When lovely young Drusilla Lawford returned from distant India to Regency England, she was shocked to discover that the will of a husband she had barely had time to know made her heiress to a splendid estate and a stunning...

  • Lifter

    Crawford Kilian

  • Spider Play

    Lee Killough

    SPACE CORPSE It started out as a routine vehicle theft. But when the stolen hearse and the body within it later turned up horribly mutilated, Detective Janna Brill and her male partner Mama Maxwell felt they were on to something much bigger; and muc...

  • One Love Forever

    Christine King

    Meg Howard thought she had finally put Clay Beaumont out of her thoughts--and her heart. But when he suddenly reappeared in her life, she knew her desire for him had never died. Her first instinct was to run. But Clay had come with a proposition Meg ...

  • Voices in an Empty Room

    Francis King

  • Only Make Believe

    Dawn Kingsbury

    At first Rachel thought it was just one of Andy's crazy half-baked ideas, but the opportunity to make Stephen jealous was too tempting to pass up. All Stephen had ever done was to patronize her, and she was tired of being taken for granted by him. So...

  • Knight of Illusion

    Mary Kirchoff
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  • A Cast of Killers

    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

    This account of the 1922 murder of film director William Desmond Taylor reveals the complete untold story--secretly solved by director King Vidor prior to his death in 1982--of one of the most famous crime mysteries in America...

  • The Van Renn Legacy

    Julie Kistler

    The rules were strict: no press and no professionals But what about partners? Daisy wondered. For it seemed that, rules or no rules, Peter Devlin had signed on for the duration of the madcap hunt for Cornelius Van Renn's legacy. Daisy's feelings w...

  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Karleen Koen

    A GRAND TAPESTRY OF A GRAND AND GLORIOUS ERA As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY will sweep you away to he splendors of a lost era. Like GONE WITH THE WIND, it is rich with characters so vivid--from ...

  • One Spooky Night: And Other Scary Stories

    Mauri Kunnas

  • Singletusk

    Bjorn Kurten

  • The Deryni Archives

    Katherine Kurtz

    There have been many events in the past 230 years of the half-magical race of the Deryni that were too short to turn into novels. Katherine Kurtz has been writing these when not occupied with longer works, and they are now collected here. Some have a...

  • False Paradise

    Lydia Lancaster

    In lush Jamaica, Noelle loved a rugged sea captain - and faced a most bewitching rival! On her family's plantation, gentle Noelle lived in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister Vanessa. Then at a glittering Kingston ball, Noelle aroused the ...

  • Autumn Tiger

    Bob Langley

    Five days from retirement as agent head of Section III, Jack Tully sets out on his final mission, a mission that brings him face-to-face with his past and his infiltration of an American POW camp for captured Germans...

  • Delirium Eclipse and Other Stories

    James Lasdun

    Nine stories deal with an arrogant foreign aid administrator, a young radical who deserts his ailing leader, a college professor lost in the Paris Metro, a boy fascinated with his grandmother's jewels, and a greedy child's efforts to prevent his moth...

  • Life of Helen Alone

    Karen Lawrence

  • Maid to Measure

    Roberta Leigh

    Everyone saw them as a perfect match! "People aren't chess pieces to be pushed around, Maman," Piers said. "I've no intention of tying myself to a girl I don't love." "You can't be serious!" Amanda's ...

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    Stanislaw Lem

    The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from “the Borges of scientific culture” (Time).   The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight -- papyralysis -- has obliterated much of the planet’s written history. Fortunately, these rare...

  • Investigation

    Stanislaw Lem

    An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize"winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The ini...

  • Love Is a Long Shot

    Marilyn Levy

    Basketball star Cass Carothers is torn between her desire to play basketball with the boys' team and her feelings for teammate Julio Martinez, who thinks that she is like all the other selfish, uncaring kids in their high school...

  • A Reputation Dies

    Alice Chetwynd Ley

    With her best friend's new husband suspected of murder, dare a young lady think of love? Society Scandal! It was a splendid soiree to start the new social season. The crème de la crème were eyeing new frocks, new romances, and most certainly,...

  • Mahogany Trinrose

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

    The ancient and dangerous secret of the Sime~Gen Mutation threatens to topple the ruling dynasty of the House of Zeor. How much torment can one teen girl take before the fate of the world doesn't matter to her anymore? How much psychic power can one ...

  • The Green Train

    Herbert Lieberman

  • Continental Lover

    Cathie Linz

    Let him race cars, gamble, live the playboy life! Mary Ellen Campbell cursed Ty Stevenson as she left Chicago on a European tour. He was nothing but a tease, a flirt. And now she had steeled herself to life without him, when he had the gall to reappe...

  • Mahogany Trinrose

    Jacqueline Litchtenberg

    The ancient and dangerous secret of the Sime~Gen Mutation threatens to topple the ruling dynasty of the House of Zeor. How much torment can one teen girl take before the fate of the world doesn't matter to her anymore? How much psychic power can...

  • The Nightmare File

    Jack Livingston

  • Word-Bringer

    Edward Llewellyn

    Richard Ryan, attorney, patent investigator, engineer, was a man with clients ranging from the United States government to corporations at the forefront of technological development. His clients valued him for his unique ability to sense deceit, espe...

  • Deadly Convictions

    Philip Luber

    After being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of three persons on a Philadelphia highway, Gordon Cordonick produces new evidence--instructions and payment for a contract killing--that prove he is not mentally disturbed...

  • The Trouble Borrower

    Giles A. Lutz

  • The Crossroads

    John D. MacDonald

    More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a complex of hotels, restaurants, a truck stop, a shopp...

  • White Lace and Promises

    Debbie Macomber

    When Maggie Kingsbury walked down the aisle as Maid of Honor at her best friend's wedding, she had no idea that twenty-four hours later she'd be married to the best man! Glenn Lambert had been her best friend in high school. Afterward they'd gone th...

  • Firestorm

    Doreen Owens Malek

    THE RANCHER AND THE SCHOOLMARM Rancher Jason McClain trusted no one but his nine-year-old son. His former wife had taught him that women were calculating and faithless and that love was a trap. He had no intention of ever being caught in it again....

  • Mission: Success!

    Og Mandino

    “For many years I have eagerly read everything Og Mandino has written, always to my profit, and I personally owe him a great debt of gratitude.” " Norman Vincent Peale   In none of his previous books has Og Mandino ever drawn on his experi...

  • The Glass Madonna

    Lisa Manning

    Miranda felt her heart thud When Miranda finally met the respected master of the famed dei Santi Glassworks in Venice, where she was to train, the dreamy romantic side of her nature began warring with the severely practical. Benvenuto dei Santi...

  • The Night Is Dark

    Joanna Mansell

    Haversham girls were usually so sensible Carrie could hardly take it all in-the panoramic beauty, the underlying primitive danger, the seductive pull that characterized the wilds of East Africa. This would be her most exciting assignment yet as a ...

  • Six-Guns and Silk

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW-AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!When two Comanche girls are raped and murdered by Jack Ramsey's cutthroat gang of hardcases, Bolt joins forces with Comanche warrior Gray Fox to help capture...

  • Search for the Doctor

    David Martin

    YOU are the only hope for the salvation of the Doctor in SEARCH FOR THE DOCTOR The year is 2056. From the Fern Spacelab orbiting above the Fusion Energy Research Network in California, OMEGA has mounted a devastating attack. OMEGA plans to take...

  • Caress of Silk

    Mary Martin

    When vicious Comancheros raided her ranch, desperate Abbie Caldwell's only chance for escape was to tumble down a cliff. Then a devilish-looking horseman lassoed her to safety, but the spirited brunette knew he was no better than her attackers and fo...

  • Nightcap

    Nancy Martin

    ADVENTURING WAS HARDLY HER STYLE Katherine Theodopolis was going to have to dispense with her "lady-of-the-manor" routine. It seemed irrelevant after being rescued by a handsome pirate in the South Pacific. At least Blackie Lowell had all the...

  • Raid,the

    Arthur Mather

    Investigating the murder of his photographer brother, Ross Berger discovers a hidden roll of film which leads him to the Committee, a ruthless, secret organization of assassins, politicians, and military leaders...

  • Passionate Vengeance

    Margaret Mayo

    Justine Jamieson's head was spinning She'd weathered her mother's death, the shocking revelation that the man she'd called father was not her father. But losing her job on trumped-up charges or having pirated designs to the competi...

  • The Artful Egg

    James McClure

    Two detectives hunt for a woman’s killer in apartheid-era South Africa: “The pace is fast, the solution ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review).   Named one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the 20th Century by The Times (London)   ...

  • Camelot Country

    Marjorie McEvoy

    Deborah Rodgers, still mourning her fiance and parents, who were killed during a World War I air raid, accepts a position with Lady Sophia in Cornwall, where she falls in love with Steven Treleaven, the heir to Penwithin Grange...