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New Books List: 396 titles

  • Alone!

    Linda Williams Aber

    Is there any hope of rescue? The girls have been shipwrecked for nearly four months. They have made a temporary home on the island and have even begun to build a boat, to try to save themselves. So far, the girls have managed to avoid all the i...

  • Hunter at Large

    Pepper Adams

    MOUNTAIN OF LOVE Tess McIver was desperate. She needed money to save her Big Bear Lodge -- and that was the only reason she agreed to teach Denver's most popular television host the fine art of wilderness survival. Jack Hunter was a hunk, all ...

  • I Want to Be a Doctor

    Liza Alexander

  • Chromos

    Felipe Alfau

    Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gad...

  • From the Highest Mountain

    Jeanne Allan

    Samantha preferred being enemies Samantha adored her brother, David, and wanted nothing to spoil his marriage to Lynda. So when his best friend, Doug, asked Sam what advice she'd give a bachelor who was head over heels in love with his best...

  • Murder in Vegas

    Steve Allen

    IT'S STEVE ALLEN'S MOST CHALLENGING PERFORMANCE YET WHEN A SHOW IN VEGAS TURNS INTO AN ENGAGEMENT WITH DEATH. Murder was far from his thoughts as Steve Allen rehearsed with legendary crooner Buddy Hamilton on the stage of the world-famous Coliseum...

  • Cafe Purgatorium

    Dana M. Anderson

  • Chase the Fire

    Barbara Ankrum

    Libby Honeycutt was determined to keep the Lazy H ranch going -- even though the place was run down and mortgaged to the hilt and her ranchmen were quitting left and right. When things looked their bleakest, an arrogant drifter rode onto her land in ...

  • Raising the Stakes

    Judith Arnold

    She intrigued him from the start Jeremy Kent had never met a woman like Marlo McGinnis before. A real-life private detective! Marlo was beautiful, efficient, and no-nonsense. She was going to track down Allison, his associate's daughter, who h...

  • The Moose in the Dress

    Bruce Balan

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Rita Balducci

  • Mefisto

    John Banville

    A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and BOOK OF EVIDENCE....

  • The Newton Letter

    John Banville

    An historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author of "The Book of Ev...

  • Renegade Texan

    Becky Barker

    KIDNAPPED! It started with threatening phone calls. Then someone tampered with the brakes on her car. The evidence was beginning to add up. Someone was trying to hurt Tamara Bennington, heiress to a huge chain of department stores. Her friends an...

  • The Whistling Song

    Stephen Beachy

    “Writing like a possessed angel, first-novelist Beachy dreams up the adventures of a male Alice who encounters a 1980s America every bit as darkly bizarre and hilarious as Lewis Carroll’s Victorian wonderland…. A hypnotic, unshakable, painfu...

  • Death of a Snob

    M.C. Beaton

    IT'S CHRISTMAS, AND CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH IS ONE BIG BUNDLE OF MISERY. With a cold in his head and no place to go for the holidays, Hamish snaps up the invitation of gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend Christmas at her Scottish island health farm -- ...

  • A Cinderella Affair

    Anne Beaumont

    She left her heart not her glass slipper Briony Spenser knew how Cinderella must have felt. When she returned to her fiance, Matthew--after meeting and falling in love with the enigmatic Paul Deverill--it was as if the clock had struck twelve and ...

  • Sunset Kiss

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Kiss, the compelling second book in the new series about Carrie, Samantha, and Emma -- away from home for the first time in the ultimate summer job! Breaking up with Josh was just the beginning for me. I'm changing ...

  • What Are People For?

    Wendell Berry

    Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the...

  • An Arranged Marriage

    Jo Beverley

    SHE WAS A RELUCTANT BRIDE Eleanor Chivenbam didn't put much past her vile brother, but even she bad not anticipated his greedy scheme to dupe a rich earl into mistaking her for a lightskirt! Her reputation in shreds, her future ruined, a defeat...

  • Dinosaurs

    Gene Biggs

  • Chip 'n Dale

    Betty G. Birney

  • In the Shadow of the Mountains

    Rosanne Bittner

    DENVER: CITY OF GOLD--CITY OF DREAMS In one magnificent family burned the vision that built a great American city. They were the Kirklands: David--the brave, big-hearted mountain dreamer who risked his life to stake a claim to a new life in the ru...

  • Adventure Unlimited

    John Blashford-Snell

    In 1984 Prince Charles launched Operation Raleigh, which offered young people the opportunity to travel and work all over the world and undergo extremes of climate and harsh terrain. Since then 4000 venturers have taken up the challenge, and this boo...

  • My Friend the Painter

    Lygia Bojunga-Nunes

  • The Baby Track

    Barbara Boswell

    AND BABY MAKES THREE From the moment sexy journalist Connor McKay burst into her office, perky Courtney Carey knew she was headed for trouble. But the socially aware television programmer never dreamed she'd soon be masquerading as a wedded woman ...

  • Down With Love!

    Carla Bracale

    Lions and tigers and love… This summer, Darlene Sullivan has decided that she’s not going to worry about boys and dating. Instead, she’ll concentrate on her job in the animal nursery at the Glendale Zoo. There’s absolutely no room in her p...

  • A Place to Land

    Sharon Brondos

    Out of the clear blue sky... The last thing Nan Black expected as she drove toward Hennington, South Dakota, was a small plane to drop from the heavens and land in front of her station wagon. But that was exactly how pilot Jesse Rivers fell int...

  • Dark Winter

    H.B. Broome

  • Lost Boys Never Say Die!

    Alan Brown

  • TV or Not TV

    Ann Brown

  • Sky Masters

    Dale Brown

    After the devastating "Flight of the Old Dog," Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan was virtually exiled at the Air Force's ultrasecret High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center. But now he's offered a chance to test-fly a new, state-of-the-art B-2 bo...

  • The Far Cry

    Fredric Brown

    Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed her. Years later a man moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more seductive than an u...

  • His Name Was Death

    Fredric Brown

    “A masterfully delivered tale of an inconspicuous citizen who [finds] murder simple . . . The climax packs a brilliant wallop.” -- Chicago Tribune   Relentlessly twisting and blackly funny, this noir novel by Edgar Award winner Fr...

  • Breath of Scandal

    Sandra Brown

    On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and fast as she could. But she never forg...

  • Texas! Sage

    Sandra Brown

    HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE DESPISED IN A MAN SO WHY COULDN'T SHE STAY OUT OF HIS ARMS? This had to be the worst night of Sage Tyler's life. First her fiance jilts her. Then she has to fly home with Harlan Boyd, the arrogant, drop-dead gorgeous stranger ...

  • The Vision

    Tom Brown

  • Willy and Hugh

    Anthony Browne

  • Sing Me a Story

    Jane Browne

  • Horsenapped!

    Bonnie Bryant

    MYSTERY AT PINE HOLLOW! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are best friends and horse-crazy members of The Saddle Club. The three are looking forward to the combined-training event at Pine Hollow Stables, when all riders will compete in dressage, cross-coun...

  • The Waltzing Widow

    Gayle Buck

    The Imperfect Plan Lady Mary Spence had found true love as the young bride of an older man. Though he had passes away, the still stunning widow treasured his memory, and sought a similar match for her charming but flighty daughter Abigail. She ...

  • A Lasting Fire

    Beverly Byrne

    DARK AND TURBULENT FIRES BURNED IN SPAIN, THE TERROR OF THE INQUISITION STILL GRIPPED THE LAND, NAPOLEON'S TROOPS RAMPAGED THROUGH THE PYRENEES ... AND THE LOVE OF A WOMAN AND A MAN WAS A PRECIOUS FLAME THAT COULD BLAZE OR BE SMOTHERED IN AN INSTANT ...

  • Walt Disney Presents the Little Mermaid, Ariel above the Sea

    Lyn Calder

  • City of Fear

    J.D. Cameron

    OMEGA SUB One awesome American submarine remains afloat after the fires of the Apocalypse have destroyed civilization: the U.S.S. Liberator, sailing the oceans of a nuclear-ravaged world on the most dangerous mission of all…survival! On a gri...

  • Rosewood

    Candace Camp

    STORMY PASSIONS AMID A GENTEEL WORLD OF ROSES AND LACE Spirited, well-bred Millicent Hayes had lived all her life amid the gently rolling hills and lush woodland of Emmetsville, Texas. Bound by her duty to her tragically crippled brother, the dark...

  • The Cloud Holders

    Bethany Campbell

    "Whitewater -- I hate you!" And she hated this "fool ritual" that had sent her halfway around the world. But Piper Gordon had promised her grandmother that she'd return the centuries-old funeral necklace to Hawaii, as the ...

  • Strangers When We Meet

    Suzanne Carey

    ANOTHER CHANCE Seven and a half years ago, Rae Maarten's husband, Quinn, had been kidnapped while on a dangerous overseas assignment. The sexy foreign correspondent had taken the job over her wishes, claiming he never wanted to see Rae again. Now ...

  • Naughty Thoughts

    Dawn Carroll

    "I want to make love to you..." Those words were never said, but Sheri O'Reilly knew that was what police sergeant Mark Sampson was thinking. Why she should have this accord -- one she and her twin brother had shared -- with the infuri...

  • St. Nazaire Commando

    Stuart Chant-Sempill

  • The Oath

    Lindsay Chase

    After witnessing the painful death of her mother at the hands of an incompetent physician, Catherine Stone vows to become a doctor -- at a price. Disowned by her family, an outcast in the eyes of society, Catherine must face the prejudices of a ...

  • Penelope Goes to Portsmouth

    Marion Chesney

    Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins, the daughter of a rich merchant. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perha...

  • Dead Man's Ride

    Dale Colter

  • Aleph

    Storm Constantine

    Artemis, a world named for a huntress goddess, colonised by a group of political idealists who over the centuries saw their dreams of equality shatter into a brutal matriarchy. After the events of The Monstrous Regiment, Corinna Trotgarden, her famil...

  • Beyond the Moons

    David Cook

  • Spring Sunshine

    Sally Cook

    Work before pleasure? Belinda Barford had been thrilled to be hired as Dr. Howard Henderson's assistant on his research trip to Crete. It had even seemed right to respond to his advances -- it was obvious they shared an overwhelming sense of a...

  • Freshman Fling

    Linda A. Cooney

    Kimberly can't believe that her infuriating lab partner, Derek, is putting the moves on her. But the more she fights with him, the more she finds him irresistible. Soon it's not just their science experiments that are heating up. Winnie and Josh are...

  • Freshman Rivals

    Linda A. Cooney

    When Winnie's absentee father shows up on campus Winnie is won over by his charm, but Josh suspects he's nothing but a con man. Is Winnie headed for a family reunion -- or a major heartbreak? Will Lauren and Dash's love survive another fierce battle...

  • Messiter's Dream

    Brian Cooper

  • Frances Dances

    Ilene Cooper

  • Frances Takes a Chance

    Ilene Cooper

  • Catalyst

    Philip Cornford

    In Moscow, a Politburo member is brutally assassinated. Moments later, his killer self-detonates, leaving no more than a puddle on the frozen ground. But the worst is yet to come. What at first seems the act of a lone fanatic is only the opening salv...

  • The Catalyst

    Desmond Cory

  • Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

    Lenox Cramer

  • In from the Cold

    Kathleen Creighton

    MR. JULY The man: Niall Rankin, world-weary veteran of the secret war for freedom. The woman: Ann Severn, a widow struggling to make a life for herself and her troubled daughter. The place: Pinetree, California, a sun-baked cluster of houses on a ...

  • The Trouble With Moonlighting

    Camilla T. Crespi

    MEET SIMONA She's smart, stubborn, savvy, and successful. She earns her living at an advertising agency, but her hobby is murder. She's always there soon after the gun fires, the knife plunges, or the body falls. One of these days, she knows, the fal...

  • Great Work of the Time

    John Crowley

  • Black Silk

    Judy Cuevas

    Her name was Submit, but she vowed she never would. She was young and proper, and happily married to an elderly marquess. But only when she was suddenly widowed did Submit Channing-Downes encounter a true and burning desire -- in the dangerous em...

  • Best Performance by a Patsy

    Stan Cutler

    Rayford Goodman hadn't died--like all once great, macho Hollywood detectives, he just faded away. His greatest moment of glory had been when, as a private eye to the stars, he made headlines by singlehandedly breaking the American Beauty Rose case, a...

  • Just Desserts

    Mary Daheim

    BEDLAM AND BREAKFAST When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the off...

  • Sunlight on Shadows

    Lacey Dancer

    GENTLE GIANT Matt Rockland had been eager to meet the owner of the mall's bookstore. He knew that his construction crews had inconvenienced her, and he wanted to smooth things over. But when Matt finally came face-to-face with Miranda Evans, h...

  • Francie and the Boys

    Meredith Daneman

  • The Tuesday Man

    David Daniel

  • The Basque Swallow

    Leigh Daniels

    Romance -- or ruse? Joanna Bellamy was tickled pink to be chaperoning a bevy of nervous, excited mail-order brides to the small European country of Andorra. The appearance on shipboard of a sinister stranger was the society matron's first ink...

  • Crimson Roses of Fountain Court

    Peggy Darty

    She was caught in a web of dark secrets ""Beware. You are not safe here. You must leave now!"" Suddenly orphaned and alone, artist Margaret Morgan was relieved to find lodgings in the carriage house of Fountain Court, an opulent, rose-colored man...

  • The Chaos Kid

    Peter David

    TWO TELEKINETICS: ONE FIGHTS TO SAVE HUMANITY. THE OTHER WANTS TO DESTROY IT... Chuck Simon was looking forward to spending the holidays on the West Coast Until his psionic powers sensed someone more powerful than anyone he'd ever encountered be...

  • Winterkill

    Nicole Davidson

    This can’t be happening. But Karen saw it -- she witnessed the moment her boyfriend Matt died. She saw his eyes, dead and staring; saw his killer disappear into the night. The crowd at Killington had been at a party -- laughing, dancing, tal...

  • Loose Ends

    Justine Davis

    WHEN SUMMER COMES AGAIN Shane Colter had left everything behind: his career as a Seattle cop, the memories of his late partner and, most of all, his guilty love for his partner's wife, Summer O'Neil. On a Florida beach, he lay in the sun and ref...

  • Fatal Recall

    Deforest Day

    Chase Defoe, a former naval intelligence officer, helps his childhood sweetheart investigate the mysterious death of her father, a retired general, who apparently killed himself after burning all the notes pertaining to his memoirs...

  • Conan the Swordsman

    L. Sprague de Camp
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who tower...

  • Rock a Bye Christmas

    Marjorie Ainsborough Decker

    This elegant holiday collection takes the classic characters and rhymes of traditional Mother Goose and transforms them, gently and reverently, as only Christian Mother Goose can. Lavishly finished with a padded cover and featuring favorite childhood...

  • Scoundrel's Captive

    Joanne DeLazzari

    PRISONER OF PASSION Beautiful and determined Jessica Morgan abandoned the civilized world of St. Louis for the wild Wyoming Territory, in search of the father she had never known. Instead she finds Steve Kincaid -- a man as rugged and magnificent as...

  • Sonny's Secret

    Judy Delton

    The surprises keep coming for the Pee Wee Scouts. Sonny Betz's mother is getting married! Molly is excited. Larry Stone, the fire chief, will make a terrific dad for Sonny.Getting ready for the wedding takes practice. The Pee Wees have a special rehe...

  • The Talbot Odyssey

    Nelson DeMille

    IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT. IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST. For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole-code-named Talbot-inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of ki...

  • The Parched Sea

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Determined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the Great Desert. As tribe after tribe fall to the intruders, only a single woman, Ruha, sees the true danger--but what sheikh will he...

  • A June Bride

    Teresa DesJardien

    WEDDING BELLS A hasty marriage to redeem her reputation was bad enough, but Alessandra's punishment for an innocent moment in the park was not to end there. Only if she and her new husband Jeffrey Huntingsley managed to share sleeping quarters f...

  • Valis

    Philip K. Dick

    VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award"winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the basis for the film Blade Runner.“Dick ...

  • Me and You

    Margaret Diehl

    When Gwen's alcoholic father died, she was seventeen. Now as she nears thirty, her father still haunts her life. She falls in love with a man who is twenty years her senior and her sister's father-in-law....

  • Classic Movie Treasury

    Walt Disney

  • Web of Horror

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Working as security guards for the filming of a horror movie starring their favorite actor, The Reaper, Frank and Joe Hardy must go undercover as film extras when the film's director is murdered and The Reaper is the number one suspect...

  • Some Kind of Madness

    Robyn Donald

    "You're running scared, Laurel." And according to Alick Forsythe, she didn't even know what she was really running from. Wrong. Laurel Webster knew all too well. Alick was exciting but dangerous, and that kind of potent attracti...

  • Every Picture Tells a Story

    Gregory Dowling

    Full of intrigue and suspense, Every Picture Tells a Story is a compelling mystery of art theft and forgery set against the backdrop of Venice. Six months after being released from prison for forgery, London artist Martin Phipps is starting over. Whi...

  • A Man to Die for

    Eileen Dreyer

    Hospital Heartthrob Wisecracking trauma nurse Casey McDonough figures she has an interesting enough life. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of the family ho...

  • Perilous Seas

    Dave Duncan

    STARCROSSED DESTINIES Queen Inos was badly shaken. Rap--loyal, trustworthy Rap--had appeared to her, obviously from beyond the grave. His insubstantial image, the echo of his voice...She stiffened her resolve. She would serve her people, whatever ...

  • Karma

    Susan Dunlap

    A thirty-something junk-food maven and brash, brainy Berkeley cop, Jill Smith usually doesn't spend much time contemplating her navel. But she accepted an invitation to see the new guru in town. She was as shocked as the rest of the packed house wh...

  • Mountolive

    Lawrence Durrell

    Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. This book was digitized an...

  • The Reluctant Suitor

    Sarah Eagle

    With her father's sudden death and his last request--for her to marry a total stranger--Joslyn Penderton must abandon her dreams of joining the smart society set in London and run away, taking only her dog and her butler...

  • A Dark and Alien Rose

    Josephine Edgar

    Shareen is raised by a kindly French couple while her mother, a female adventuress, leads an exotic life-style. Her mother dies as World War I approaches and Shareen is sent to relatives in England to whom scandal is not unknown....

  • A Lady of Breeding

    Delia Ellis

    "IN MY EXPERIENCE, MEN MARRY EITHER BEAUTY OR MONEY, AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE, BOTH!" Lucy Tiversley believed her unruly red hair, freckles, outspoken nature, and lack of fortune removed her from the Marriage Mart. She thus decided her divers...

  • Winter Tapestry

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Cordell vows to revenge the murder of her father. Roger Allington is honor bound to protect his friend's daughter but has no liking for her reckless ways. Yet his heart tells him he must pursue this beauty through a maze of plots to win her love an...

  • Swing

    L.L. Enger

    Gunsten Søren Pedersen knew about baseball and death. A tragedy took the former slugger out of the major leagues, and the only diamonds he sees now are the stars shining in the cold night of Minnesota's North Woods. That is, until Miles Gates-an...

  • The Crown of Columbus

    Louise Erdrich

    A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and son to find what the diary refers to as "the greatest treasure of Europe." Reprint....

  • What's under My Bed?

    Mary G. Eubank

  • Murderer's Row

    Crabbe Evers

    Called in by the Commissioner of Baseball, Duffy House--retired sports columnist and baseball aficionado--is faced with a daunting task: to find out who killed the most hated man in baseball, the owner of the New York Yankees...

  • Escape from Loki

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    Henry Farrell

    Book jacket: Baby Jane, a child star of early vaudeville, resented having to grow up in the shadow of her prettier sister Blanche Hudson, who became Hollywood's reigning love goddess. Now, some fifty years later, they are together and alone. And real...

  • Sleep of the Unjust

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • The Town That Moved

    Mary Jane Finsand

  • Savage Streets

    Herb Fisher

  • Killer Finish

    Denny Martin Flinn

    "It does appear that the Great Gandalfo has suffered an irreversible mistake in an otherwise well-conducted act!" And in this case, appearances were not deceiving. The Great Gandolfo was run through with his own swords, and it didn't take a Sherlo...

  • Touched by Fire

    Janis Flores

  • My Name Is Bert

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Walt Disney's the Rocketeer Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Lady and the Dragon

    Regan Forest

    The damsel and the dragon slayer Dragons were the stuff of legends, and Prince Charming existed only in fairy tales. Despite her romantic inclinations, Professor Katherine Glenn knew that was reality. Until she came to visit Michael Reese in his c...

  • Cat-A-Lyst

    Alan Dean Foster

    A GAME OF CAT...AND CAT? Movie star Jason Carter is on vacation in Peru. All he wants is a break, but what he finds is a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas bent on conquest of the entire world! Nor is Carter alone. His allies include ...

  • Nights of Desire

    Natalie Fox

    Had Carrie found the right man? Carrie Sutherland had gone to Spain to find a missing boyfriend. Instead, she'd found a job and Alex Drayton. Alex warned Carrie on her first day in the office that he didn't have time to waste getting to...

  • A Hollywood Life

    David Freeman

  • Highland Moon

    Judith E. French

    HEIRESS TO PASSION...A beautiful virgin widow, aristocratic Lady Anne had reluctantly consented to a second unwanted marriage. But the ceremony was interrupted when a brawny, black-eyed intruder wearing a ragged kilt, moccasins and eagle feathers bur...

  • Cool It!

    Melanie Friedman

  • Requiem for the Conqueror

    W. Michael Gear

    THE FINAL CONFLICT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... The Forbidden Borders form a seemingly unassailable gravity-powered barrier, cutting humankind off from the wider universe, confining rival empires to a few star systems, and leaving them to strive endlessl...

  • Marci's Secret Book of Dating

    Jan Gelman

  • Maverick // Renegade

    Cindy Gerard

    The Dangerously Sexy Cowboy... When Jesse Kincannon drove up in a low-slung black Porsche, Amanda Carter knew trouble had arrived! His father's will had left her half of the Flying K Ranch, and she'd been dreading the day she'd have to face the ren...

  • Pirate's Passionate Slave

    Robin Gideon

    SOUTHERN SPITFIRE Lauren Masters was both terrified and furious when a gang of white-slave traders seized her ship. The Virginia vixen swore to fight the cruel rake who carried her off to his cabin...until she saw that Derek York was no ordinary pri...

  • Muppet Kids in Frogs Only!

    Louise Gikow

  • I'm Mad at You!

    Louise Gikow

  • Boogeymen

    Mel Gilden

    Eric Baldwin is the Federation's premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard's oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin's discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard...

  • Troll Patrol

    Mel Gilden

    TROLL PATROLA MONSTROUS SUMMER CAMP!The kids from P.S. 13 are enjoying their summer vacation at Camp Horrorific, but things keep disappearing from their bunks! Only Danny Keegan and his monster pals know what's behind the creepy goings-on-trolls from...

  • Sharing Sunrise

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    THE GORGEOUS, GROWN-UP BOY NEXT STORE... Rolph McKenzie was infuriating, impossible -- and downright irresistible! Marion Crane had come home after years of traveling, determined to make the only man she ever wanted realize she was a woman at last....

  • Super Mario Brothers: Battle Bowser

    Golden Books

  • Meet Koopa Kids

    Golden Books

  • Super Mario Brothers: Tatanga Invades

    Golden Books

  • Special Powers

    Golden Books

  • The Dark Sister

    Rebecca Goldstein

    Hedda, a writer of angry feminist novels, has fled New York City to write in solitude in an old house on the coast of Maine. Her only interruptions come in unwelcome phone calls from her self-absorbed and many-times divorced sister Stella, describing...

  • Sweet Fire

    Jo Goodman

    SHE LONGED TO LOVE HIM Told all her life that she was plain, Lydia Chadwick knew no man would come courting because of her looks. So it was with some suspicion that the shy, sweet San Francisco heiress woke one morning with a tall, dark, dangerous...

  • Balancing Acts

    Helena Goscilo

    Goscilo (Slavic studies, U. of Pittsburgh) has collected 19 stories by Russian women, written over the last 20 years. The work is a composite self-portrait of modern Russian womanhood. Dominant themes are the prevalence of the double-shift syndrome--...

  • My Stories by Hildy Calpurnia Rose

    Dale Gottlieb

  • One Wore Blue

    Heather Graham

    HER REBEL SPIRIT DEFIED HIS YANKEE SOUL. She was velvet and silk, emerald eyes and sunstruck hair, Kiernan Miller had married one man to protect her from another. She hated Jesse Cameron with a fierce passion. But she was a widow now, and he was the...

  • Sacred Visions

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Unsuitable Company

    Judith Green

    The glamour of high society, the power of the boardroom, behind-the-scenes gossip, blackmail and steamy sex--all these are dramatized by a good mix of characters and with flashes of humor. John "J.K." Kaplan, an Englishman who's clawed hi...

  • Phases in Chaos

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • After the Roses

    Kay Gregory

    She was a winner--against her will! After a marriage that wasn't particularly happy, Damaris Gordon had decided she could do without further romantic involvements. Raising her young daughter and living a quiet, well-ordered life was contentmen...

  • Nobody Listens to Me

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    Father vs. daughter Mendy loves spending time with her father on his boat, Summer Seas, and since her mother's death, they've grown very close. Mendy especially enjoys going with him on his whale-watching excursions, spotting humpback whales as th...

  • To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

    Herve Guibert

    In an unflinching novel about life with AIDS, an imaginative and vital narrator describes the underground lifestyle of his friend, a character based on the philosopher Michel Foucault, until the narrator faces his own infection and death sentence...

  • The Daring

    Patricia Hagan

    No Going Back Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Coulter land had been in the family for generations. Jessica Cooper; pledged to marry a man she loathed; was bound by the code of the mountains to obey her father and keep the lan...

  • Scared Stiff and Other Creepy Tales

    Andrew Halfer

  • A Visit to France

    Kirsten Hall

  • What Is Christmas?

    Susan T. Hall

  • Yours, Mine And...Ours

    Carole Halston

    Free-spirited and impetuous, Emily insisted her youthful marriage to the assertive and dominating Rye Keeler had been a big mistake. Still, it took all of her willpower to stay away -- their marriage had been as fiery as her own passionate nature. To...

  • A Secret Affair

    Violet Hamilton

    A LOVELORN LADY In an attempt to recover from the rumors surrounding her jilted engagement, lively Jennifer Dryden hoped to find sanctuary in the calming atmosphere of the blue-washed coast of Cornwall. Instead, a passionate kiss en route in the arm...

  • Dying to Know

    Jeff Hammer

  • The Christie Caper

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    A GROUP OF CHRISTIE BUFFS... In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery book-store owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne ...

  • Love or Money

    Virginia Hart

    She felt like a mail-order bride! When Addie Rutherford began digging in her family's history, she was thrilled to discover a distant relative in Boston. Miriam Rutherford Mandeville was equally delighted with her new "niece" -- and de...

  • Dinosaurs Aren't Forever

    Jessica Hatchigan

  • The Trouble With Lemons

    Daniel Hayes

    His real name was Tyler McAllister, but he felt like a lemon. He had allergies and nightmares, and was the only unfamous person in his family. But one night he and a friend went swimming at the forbidden quarry, and Tyler found a dead body. Now he's ...

  • Missing You

    Betsy Haynes

    At Wakeman Junior High, the girls try to cope with Christie's absence after she moves to London with her family, and in London, Christie is horrified to learn that her friends back home have decided to add a new member to their group...

  • Right to Die

    Jeremiah Healy

    MORTAL FOES Professor Maisy Andrus has made one too many enemies fighting for the individual's inalienable right to die. The flamboyant activist is receiving unsigned death threats--and her admirers see a job for Detective John Cuddy. It's Chri...

  • The Wendy Puzzle

    Florence Parry Heide

  • A Scandalous Suggestion

    Emily Hendrickson

    Doing the Unthinkable Miss Sibyl Eagleton knew she should be the happiest of young ladies The most eligible lord in London, the heavenly handsome, charming, poetic Viscount Buckingham, had asked for her hand. But though Buckingham was everythin...

  • Memorymakers

    Brian Herbert

    Memorymakers tells the story of an ancient race of beings called the Ch’Var, who live among humans. They look like humans, act like humans, talk like humans. Their appetites, though, are anything but human....

  • Obsession

    Lori Herter

    MIDNIGHT FANTASY All her life, Veronica dreamed of a lover who would take her and thrill her to the very limits of her body and soul. Other men desired her, but none could match the overpowering figure who haunted her imagination ... David de M...

  • Roll over and Play Dead

    Joan Hess

    Miss Emily Parchester's pampered bassets, Nick and Nora, have to be the most slobbery pets in Farberville, Bookstore owner Claire Malloy could kick herself for agreeing to dog-sit them, especially when on the third day of Miss Emily's vacation, they ...

  • Indiscretions

    Donna Hill

    Khendra Phillips is at the height of her legal career when handsome, smooth-talking attorney Sean Michaels bursts onto the scene and threatens to capture not only her love but her career in the legal field as well. Khendra's heartbroken past reminds ...

  • Holiday for Murder

    John Buxton Hilton

    It's Easter time, and a small-town musical production has sparked a storm of controversy. Fading star Wayne Larner considers his role a comeback opportunity. The locals consider it an outrage. Larner is a disreputable rake--addicted to fast cars and ...

  • The Perfect Murder

    Jack Hitt

  • Sarah's Sin

    Tami Hoag

    The Handsome Hospital Romeo... Matt Thorne awakened to find that his nurse looked like an angel from another century--and her innocent beauty made the world seem suddenly new. The brash doctor had come to his sister's country inn to recover from i...

  • Project Daedalus

    Thomas Hoover

    Retired agent Michael Vance is approached for help on the same day by an old KGB adversary and a brilliant and beautiful NSA code breaker. While their problems seem at first glance to be different, Vance soon learns he's got a potentially lethal tige...

  • A Visit to the Soviet Union

    Benrei Huang

  • A Visit to China

    Benrei Huang

  • Sanctuary of the Chosen

    Dave Hunt

    A well-written, tightly woven novel for our times, The Sanctuary of the Chosen is the story of Ari Seibel--an East German whose goal is to topple the communist regime in his country. Expelled to Israel for his subversive activities, Ari discovers tha...

  • Silent Thunder // Universe

    Dean Ing

  • Strange Sea Creatures

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Golden Captive

    Jean Innes

    SHE'S NEVER AGREE TO MARRIAGE! Ashley Sherwood, the tall, rugged owner of a California saloon, figured he could handle just about anything... until the terms of his grandfather's will forced him to travel to England to find a bride and he met the de...

  • Hare Sitting Up

    Michael Innes

    Scotland Yard’s director and a school headmaster team up to find a missing biological warfare expert in this classic, Cold War"era mystery thriller. At the height of the Cold War, one of Britain’s top-secret scientists is missing. Prof. Howard ...

  • The Man from the Sea

    Michael Innes

    Cranston was preoccupied with his mistress when the man came out of the sea. The man was exhausted and almost naked and he was being chased. Cranston helped him, but subsequent events often made him wish that he hadn''t. For it messed up his love ...

  • The Werewolf's Revenge

    Richard Jaccoma

  • Dangerous Engagement

    Lynn Jacobs

    Jane Simpson should have known better To offer help to a stranger -- especially one as unkempt and downright hostile as the mysterious Englishman she'd met while crossing the Aegean Sea -- had been particularly foolish. Sure enough, her goo...

  • Tough Guy

    Arlene James

    SHOWDOWN TO LOVE The last thing Owen Ketter wanted was a partner. Correction...a female partner. His mind was made up -- absolutely, positively, finally. And no woman in the world would unmake it. When an equally determined Bonnie Maxwell arriv...

  • Speak Only Love

    Deana James

    Piers Larne had learned to hide his feelings behind a mask of bitter indifference and a large decanter of brandy. But the sight of the heiress his father was forcing him to wed sobered the viscount's dissolute soul. Her silvery blond hair and flawles...

  • Celia

    Ruby Jean Jensen

    I'll get you, Celia. You kill me and I'll come back as your worst nightmare. I'll get you and I'll get your kids, too. I'll get you, Celia, I'll get you... -- No one heard the gunshots. Just as no one ever heard Celia's screams or those of her c...

  • A Tough Man to Tame

    Iris Johansen

    Her Fierce Protector -- or Savage Lover? Had she or fate chosen Louis Benoit to father the child she so desperately desired? Mariana Sandell wondered, as she evaded the stunningly handsome financial wizard's security and appeared without warning in...

  • Perfect Together

    Nora Johnson

    Fran and Charlie's almost perfect yuppie marriage is threatened when, following futile attempts to conceive a baby, their maid becomes pregnant, and Charlie, admitting paternity, declares his intentions to raise the child...

  • Never Tease a Wolf

    Joan Johnston

    BIG BAD WOLF Luke Granger was fuming! A renegade wolf was roaming his land, threatening his sheep, and he planned to put an end to it -- until a hotheaded environmentalist showed up talking about some crazy scheme to SAVE the sharp-toothed pest! Y...

  • Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the hairy Camp Director really be a werewolf? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "I think Mr. Jenkins is strange," Howie said. Melody laughed. "He has more hair than ...

  • The Deadly Side of the Square

    Lee Jordan

    HOME SWEET HELL The seedy side of Pimlico Square has become a deathtrap for its elderly residents. An unsettling number of accidents--a fatal mugging, several deadly tumbles--has sent tenants fleeing in terror for safer parts of London. Not Sop...

  • A Forbidden Loving

    Penny Jordan

    Had she mistaken kindness for something more? Hazel had to face the truth about Silas Jardine. He was only being friendly because she was Katie's mother. And Katie -- not Hazel -- was the once he cared about. But that didn't make it an...

  • Dangerous Interloper // The Innocent's Secret Temptation

    Penny Jordan

    The man was trespassing on her emotions! Women as independent and career-minded as Miranda didn't just bump into a total stranger and fall in love. Ridiculous. Impossible. Totally unthinkable. There must have been some other more logical expla...

  • A Very Proper Death

    Alex Juniper

    "I can see you in your nightgown," the caller said pleasantly, "and the floral pattern of your sheets. You are Matthew's mother, and this call is about Matthew's death." In one dark moment after midnight, Mantis carefully constructed new life coll...

  • A Rage in Heaven (Part 2)

    Ken Kato

  • A Rage in Heaven (Part 1)

    Ken Kato

  • Players

    Hilary S. Kayle

  • Sweet Revenge

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy and her pals have come to the rustic Oakwood Inn to indulge in a chocolate festival fantasy. Add a dash of Brock Sawyer, celebrity taster and one of TV’s hottest stars, and you have the makings of a perfect weekend. But the sweet dream turns ...

  • Junior Class Trip

    Carolyn Keene

  • Someone's Watching

    Judith Kelman

    Five-year-old James Merritt lies in a hospital bed--the sixth victim in a series of accidents plaguing a peaceful Connecticut community.  'Maybe if he pretends to be asleep, the shadow man will go away.  He sees the glint of the needle.  The pa...

  • Hundred and One Dalmatians

    Ronald Kidd

  • Risky Business

    Jane Kidwell

    FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE ENEMY It was an unusual job for a young woman fresh out of college. But Blair Kennedy was no ordinary woman. Her straightforward manner and athletic beauty made her the perfect candidate to go undercover at Logan Cavanaug...

  • The New Order

    Janus Kimball

  • Dark Guardian

    Rebecca King

    Stranded on an exotic island It might sound romantic to some, but not to Fliss Naughton. Not when her only companion was the mysterious Brand Carradine. Brand was her captor and her legal guardian--not that she needed a guardian. And his opinio...

  • Someone's Baby

    Sandra Kitt

    WAS IT A SIGN? When Julie Conway's frozen turkey fell from her hands and rolled to Cole Bennett's feet, Julie was forced into an unaccustomed role -- accepting help from a stranger. Then the detective mentioned that he was spending Thanksgiving...

  • Midnight Star

    Kristie Knight

    THE CHARLESTON WOMEN Book two in the glorious trilogy of the colonial South... the women whose passions helped' to shape a nation... and the men they dared to love. ERIN BANNING. To her Patriot father, she was a precious, delicate jewel--to be pro...

  • Carolina Compromise

    Nancy Knight

    NOTHING WOULD BE FINER... Richard Kemp came to Charleston, South Carolina with one thing in mind. He needed to discover the real magic of the city so that he could sell a new ad campaign to the local chamber of commerce. For Richard, the stakes we...

  • Maria Mazaretti Loves Spaghetti

    Robert Kobayashi