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New Books List: 396 titles

  • Ringer

    J.S. Thayer

    This superior thriller that fantasizes tweaking the nose of Fidel Castro centers on his bitterest enemies, Miami's Cuban-American veterans of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. William Maurice is an ex-CIA agent who is still assuaging his guilt for his role in ...

  • Second Sight

    Charles McCarry

    A legendary CIA agent is called out of retirement to combat an unknown enemy in this sweeping international spy thriller. Second Sight is the seventh thriller in the critically acclaimed series that follows CIA Agent Paul Christopher -- a man ensnare...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Albino Knife

    Steve Perry

    IT TAKES MORE THAN DEATH TO KILL AN EVIL MAN Her father is a hero, a legend, the man who changed the history of the galaxy. The Man Who Never Missed--a man she never met. The Confederation defeated, Emile Khadaji disappeared, and now she must find...

  • Alien Invaders

    Edward Packard

    In an interactive fiction format, the reader is a member of an elite group of interstellar astronauts in the year 2100, aiding the Baakrans in their civil war and preparing for the invasion of the Cephids...

  • Artifact of the System

    Jack McKinney

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Dark Beyond the Stars

    Frank M. Robinson

    TO SEEK THE STARS IS MANKIND'S DESTINY -- BUT ONLY ONE MAN KNOWS WHEN TO RETURN! For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien lifeforms--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction l...

  • Escape from Loki

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Faster Than Light

    Edward Packard

  • Phases in Chaos

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Sacred Visions

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Silent Thunder // Universe

    Dean Ing

  • Valis

    Philip K. Dick

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

  • And Baby Makes None

    Stephen Lewis

    Lawyer Seymour Lipp tries to help a teenage girl who was persuaded by her father to give her baby up for adoption -- and now wants to change her decision. Her father, Paul Morrissey, had arranged the adoption through a shady lawyer to a Vietnam vet a...

  • 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

  • China White

    Michael Newton

  • Condition Black

    Gerald Seymour

    Determined to find the person who gunned down his friend, a CIA agent, on a street in Greece, FBI agent Bill Erlich discovers clues that lead him to a run-down English manor and the fugitive son of a World War II hero. Reprint....

  • Count the Days

    Lin Summerfield

  • Dead Air

    Bob Larson

    A chilling novel of one man's struggle to overcome evil with good.

    On Monday, October 19, nine-year-old Jennifer calls Wes Bryant's radio talk show, "Talk About Town," and changes his life forever. She can't tell him where she is; she can't tell h...

  • 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...

  • Death of a Cloud Walker

    E.S. Russell

    Toby Frame, a professor at Harvard who just barely survived an ordeal on an Appalachian trail, despite the efforts of a mad mountain man to see him suffer, cannot escape his desire to seek vengeance on his tormentor...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Warâ€"era mystery thriller. At the height of the Cold War, one of Britain’s top-secret scientists is missing. Prof. Howard ...

  • 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...

  • Hung in the Balance

    Roger Ormerod

  • A Killing in Kansas

    Jeffrey Tharp

    MURDER DIVIDES A SMALL TOWN--AND ONE COP WALKS A FINE LINE.... The Kansas City vice squad has been hell for cop Johnny Branch. In sleepy Elk Rapids, he figures, the living will be easy. But his hopes are shattered when a rich local businessman ...

  • 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 Man Upstairs and Other Stories

    P.G. Wodehouse

    PG Wodehouse was born as Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, south east England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a judge. The Wodehouse family had aristocratic roots in ...

  • Nothing Human

    Ronald Munson

    Inspired by Raymond Chandler's telling phrase, Ronald Munson has depicted a criminal as shocking as "a tarantula on a piece of angel food cake." Drawing form actual profiles of serial killers, he has created a bone-chillingly accurate portrait of a p...

  • Road Kills

    Michael Newton

    A fugitive father and his sons team up for a savage cross-country killing spree.The Sawyer-Gleason clan—a malevolent family of five, let by a depraved patriarch. They live on the road…survive by the knife and gun. And never leave a witn...

  • Savage Streets

    Herb Fisher

  • The Shadow of a Shadow

    Paco Ignaci Taibo II

    "The Shadow of the Shadow follows four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City in 1922. They are a motley group-a gun-toting poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organi...

  • Shattered

    Richard Neely

    He could not even remember his own name…and someone was trying to kill him! Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that cou...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Too Hot to Handle

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Mick Soul goes undercover as a deejay at Gator's, a new teen club, to investigate a series of suspicious fires and other incidents that lead Amanda Hart to believe that someone is out to shut down the club...

  • The Tuesday Man

    David Daniel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • No Holds Barred

    Patricia Rosemoor

    KING CRAWLEY The Seattle mobster had saved his most brutal plot for last. The innocent would perish-and Judge Raferty would be brought to his knees .. . . ASIA RAFERTY A brush with Crawley's henchmen brought the judge's daughter to the gates...

  • 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...

  • Bath Charade

    Amanda Scott

    Hunting for a Hero Miss Carolyn Hardy adored novels of the most romantic sort--and longed for a man to equal their dashing heroes. With her beauty and charm, Carolyn had a swarm of suitors to search among. There was the wealthy Brandon Manningford...

  • Bride's Leap

    Joan Overfield

    HER LIFE IS IN DANGER -- AND HER HEART AS WELL! It all seemed straight from a gothic novel: an unexpected inheritance, a haunted mansion, and now a strange series of accidents. As the new mistress of Bride's Leap, had Maggie Chambers now come in...

  • The Denville Diamond

    Winifred Witton

    Their masquerade was harmless until they fell in love NEITHER could disguise the love in their hearts Miss Violet Langford dearly loved her cousin who was plotting an elopement. Violet had only to agree to appear at Branleigh House disguised a...

  • The Heart's Wager

    Clarice Peters

    SHE liked him entirely too much for her own good English Society was not best pleased with Miss Vivian Spalding or her outspoken American ways. Mr. Lucian Reed, "the supreme arbiter of fashion" was to become the initial object of Miss ...

  • Inherited Bride

    Sarah Westleigh

    Absolutely shocking! Richard d'Evreux could not believe the turmoil that his unexpected reappearance in Devon created - or the fact that it would ultimately lead to the tragedy involving his father. Eleanor went to Devon to marry her betrothed, Willi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Notorious Lord Havergal

    Joan Smith

    NO LADY COULD IGNORE A CHALLENGE TO REFORM A HARDENED RAKE! Lord Havergal was in want of funds for gambling debts and other notorious pursuits befitting a dashing scoundrel such as himself. Though his tight-fisted financial guardian had refused hi...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Melinda Pryce

    A HEART HELD HOSTAGE When a silken-masked highwayman pointed his gun into her carriage, Miss Jane Manley felt no fear. For Jane was betrothed to Lord Scythe, and destined to become stepmother to his six mewling children. Her only possibility of es...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Deep Kill

    M.K. Shuman

    Micah Dunn, New Orleans private eye, investigates a 40-year-old mystery when a one-legged skeleton with a bullet hole in the forehead is unearthed on an archaeological dig in Mississippi. Its identification leads Micah to determine the circumstances ...

  • 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...

  • Murder on the Run

    Gloria White

    A SECOND-STORY LADY WITH A DEGREE IN B & E... Meet Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana, daughter of the infamous Ventanas, the couple who made cat burglary classy. But Ronnie, with her special expertise in burglar alarm systems--getting past them, that is--...

  • Pastime

    Robert B. Parker

    The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, PASTIME is Robert B. Parker's electrifying masterpiece of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenag...

  • A Red Death

    Walter Mosley

    It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar-pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Da...

  • 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...

  • Cold Tracks

    Lee Wallingford

    Tired of the violence of big-city crime, former narcotics agent Frank Carver trades the streets of Seattle for the penny-ante stuff of Oregon's Neskanie National Forest. Work is wonderfully, refreshingly dull for the forest's new law enforcement offi...

  • 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 ...

  • Prayer for the Dead

    David Wiltse

    An FBI agent quits retirement to hunt a methodical serial killer with a passion for human blood. The man comes to slowly, feeling caught in a spider’s web. His arms and legs are secured, his mouth is taped shut, and the drugs are keeping him docile...

  • Sea of Troubles

    Janet L. Smith

    AN AFFAIR OF REAL ESTATE AND LOVE, KIDNAPPING AND MURDER... Elegant Windsor Resort on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest is up for sale with an interested buyer on the spot. But to Seattle lawyer Annie MacPherson, who holds power of attorney fo...

  • Witching Murder

    Jennie Melville

    Charmian Daniels, chief metropolitan police superintendent of Central London, interrupts a medical leave when beautiful Vivien Charles, member of a witches' coven, is found fatally stabbed in her home, her corpse surrounded by cult objects. An autops...

  • Hooky Gets the Wooden Spoon

    Laurence Meynell

    His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl ...

  • A Perfect Death for Hollywood

    Richard Nehrbass

    Ex-LAPD detective Vic Ecton is drawn out of his early retirement when a teenager is found crucified under the Hollywood sign and he follows twisted trails that lead him to suspects ranging from a psychopath to a Hollywood legend. Reprint....

  • Death Qualified

    Kate Wilhelm

    It begins with a nude body in a river, then a phone message: "Bobby, I need you" These two events change the direction of Barbara Holloway's life. Barbara had given up the law five years before, but she's still "death qualified;" still able to def...

  • 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...

  • Vanishing Animals and Other Stories

    Mary Morris

    Morris's stories range over vast territories, both emotional and geographical, from a summer romance by the swimming pool to reconciliations in a New York walk-up, from expeditions in the Rockies to encounters in the suburbs...

  • Autumn Rose

    Louisa Rawlings

    Her Battle with Fate Years spent cloistered in Normandy had done little to temper the spirited Amalie de Saint-Hillaire. While traveling to her father's chateau, she'd flirted shamelessly with handsome Jean-Marc Beaunoir, never dreaming the rogue ...

  • The Black Rose

    Christina Skye

    Black Rose Calling card of the infamous Romney Fox. Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, ...

  • 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...

  • Bronze Mirror

    Jeanne Larsen

    A blend of fantasy and history describes how a young maid in twelfth-century China is fascinated by the betrayal, cunning, and affairs of the wealthy family she serves, while the Yellow Emperor watches her through his magical bronze mirror. Reprint....

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Desperado's Kiss

    Joyce Myrus

    DOOMED DESPERADO When circus trick rider Lark McKay found herself witnessing an Oklahoma hanging, she was startled to see a dark-eyed, squaw-jawed hunk of an outlaw brazenly wink at her from the gallows. But the real shock came when a frenzied shoot...

  • Eden Valley

    Susan Hatton McCoy

    In 1821, only the strong survived the frontier.... Though Nellie Cranford was young, hardly more than a girl herself, she was determined to forge her destiny with a new husband and his motherless children. The sacrifices would be many, whether it ...

  • The Fire and the Fury

    Anita Mills

    Amid the flames of royal revolt their hearts burned with a fierce, wild love... Raven-haired, emerald-eyed, no noblewoman in all Britain was more beautiful -- or more defiant -- than Elizabeth of Riveaux. She refused to accept any man after a disastr...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Highland Rogue

    Arnette Lamb

    A Woman of Principle... A Man of Passion. An indentured servant from Virginia, Juliet White came to Scotland to find her niece, the child her sister had borne before she died. The search took her to the castle of Lachlan MacKenzie, duke of Ross, w...

  • 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...

  • Innismere

    Suzannah O'Neill

    A beautiful American dancer, Lily found her life changed forever the day she married the dashing Irish baronet, Ian d'Arcy. Their union was a joyful and loving one until Lily discovered her husband's terrible secret, a secret that threatened to shatt...

  • Lady Rogue

    Kathryn Kramer

    SHE FLED LONDON'S PERILOUS STREETS... Trembling, Dawn Leighton ran as fast as her lovely legs could carry her. Capture meant Newgate Prison, a hateful fate. They called her Lady Rogue. Orphaned at an early age, taken in by ruffians and thieves, 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Only His

    Elizabeth Lowell

    ONLY INNOCENCE Beautiful, gently reared Willow Moran left her Civil War-ravaged home with her prized Arabian horses and the dream of joining her brother in the Colorado Rockies--trusting her fate to a rugged gunfighter whose raw masculinity demand...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stark Lightning

    Elaine Rome

    Battle of Wills Valentine Stark could outshoot, outride and out rope any man on her father's spread. But she had made more mistakes in the month that Branch Walker had been around than she cared to admit, and she was determined that the handsome cow...

  • Surrender to the Night

    Evelyn Rogers

    THE MAGIC OF HIS TOUCH Orphaned as a child, Jenna Cresswell was used to living by her wits on the rough streets of London. But a perilous secret forced the redheaded beauty to pose as a deaf girl and earn her keep at a tawdry tavern. There she was...

  • 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...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Karen Robards

    HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE FEARED... Defiantly beautiful, Caroline Wetherby stepped ashore in a land so wild and fierce, she trembled. She had come seeking refuge with the last of her family, but her sister was dead. Waiting to greet her were pious Pilgr...

  • Torchlight

    Doreen Owens Malek

    Forbidden Desire One look into the fires of Sean Jameson's rebel eyes and Elizabeth Langdon knew she would forsake everything for the shattering pleasures of his forbidden embrace. Sean was bent on the destruction of all her family stood for, but ...

  • Warrior's Ecstasy

    Scotney St. James

    MINNESOTA MINX When Irony McBride headed north to catch the thief who'd swindled her aunt, she never expected to be traipsing through unfamiliar Indian territory. In desperate need of a wilderness guide, Irony was overjoyed to encounter the perfect ...

  • 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...

  • The Baby-Sitter II

    R.L. Stine

    He's back. Jenny’s last baby-sitting job nearly killed her--for real. But she's a survivor. She's getting over it. The crazy guy who was after her is gone. She's even got a new baby-sitting job. Then the phone rings. When she answers, she ...

  • 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...

  • The Immortals

    Andrew Neiderman

    When it comes to staying young, some people will pay any price… What if Ponce de Leon really did discover the fountain of youth? Mr. Leon is alive in the twentieth century and is the owner of a high-end cosmetics company. His handpicked salespeople...

  • Lights Out

    R.L. Stine

  • Reprisal

    F. Paul Wilson

    The bestselling supernatural thriller from horror author F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal is the fifth book in the Adversary Cycle "Who am I? Why, I'm you. Or parts of you. The best parts. I'm the touch of Richard Speck, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, ...

  • The Werewolf's Revenge

    Richard Jaccoma

  • 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...

  • Wind Chimes

    R.R. Walters

    Eleven-year-old Megan spends hours in her "secret place" talking to her friend Rosamunde, but her parents are horrified to learn that their daughter's secret world is more than just a child's overactive imagination...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Colonel Death

    Jon Sharpe

    Canyon O'Grady returns to prevent a deranged U.S. Cavalry colonel from committing more atrocities south of the Rio Grande, but matters become complicated, and explosive, when a female spitfire and murderous banditos hunt O'Grady...

  • Comanche Raiders

    Dan Mason

  • Dead Man's Ride

    Dale Colter

  • Flags over Texas

    William A. Luckey

  • Gold Mine Madness

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo figured he knew why Irish miners offered a pile of pay dirt to ride gun for their wagon train through the Rockies. A lot of men would do a lot of killing for its cargo: smooth whiskey and wanton women. But what Skye didn't know until too l...

  • Over on the Lonesome Side

    James A. Ritchie

    Jim Darnell comes to Alamitor, New Mexico, at the request of old friend John Lysander, to help elderly Zeb Spencer, his granddaughter, and other townspeople in their battle with the corrupt and ruthless Colby Ryan over water rights...

  • Ramsey's Law

    Will McLennan

  • Slocum and the Trail of Death

    Jake Logan

    THE BLOOD'S FLOWING ON THE VENGEANCE TRAIL! Arizona has more than its share of dangers -- bushwhackers and Apaches, just to name a few. So James Brogan has hired John Slocum to get him, his girl, and his gold safely back home. Trouble is, Slocum t...

  • Too Many Drifters

    Jim Miller

  • Vengeance Valley

    Luke Short

  • 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...

  • Dark Windows

    Mary-Ben Louis

    She is a woman with no memory-with no past beyond the day they found her wandering, dazed and hysterical, when she was nineteen. Her only clue is an engraved disk on her charm bracelet: her name, "Manda". But something draws her to the fogbound coast...

  • Lady of the Moors

    Mary Eileen Petty

  • Secret in the Shadows

    Marina Malcolm

    DARK SECRETS, DEADLY SHADOWS At the turn of the century, a young lady left orphaned and penniless by the sudden death of her parents could become either a governess or a tart. So Amelia Donelly accepted eagerly when her aunt and spinster cousin in...

  • 38 North Yankee

    Ed Ruggero

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Altitude Zero

    Hank Searls

    When Anne Woodhouse's violent ex-husband, Cal McCann, escapes from a mental asylum, boards Flight 408, and takes control of the plane, Anne, the plane's co-pilot, must try to stop him. Reprint. NYT. AB. ...

  • Andro, This Is Crazy

    Jack Lawson

  • 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--...

  • Beyond Terror

    Barbara Siegel

  • Big Man

    Ed McBain

    The lives of two New York toughs spin out of control when a routine burglary spirals into a cop killing in this thriller by the author of the 87th Precinct series.   Robbing the cars is Jobbo’s idea. Frankie just goes along because it’s too ...

  • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure II: Bogus Journey

    Marvel Book Group

  • Blue Lightning

    Charles Stella

  • A Book of Opportunities

    Francesca Mateu

  • Bunny's Night Out

    Roni Schotter

  • Cafe Purgatorium

    Dana M. Anderson

  • Can You Find Sadie?

    Susan Miller

  • The Chase: A Kutenai Indian Tale

    Beatrice Tanaka

  • Chip 'n Dale

    Betty G. Birney

  • 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...

  • Classic Movie Treasury

    Walt Disney

  • Coming of the King

    Fiona MacMath

  • Cool It!

    Melanie Friedman

  • Crybaby Lois

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield can't understand why her twin sister, Elizabeth, is so friendly with Lois Waller. Lois is afraid of everybody and cries all the time, but Elizabeth thinks she's nice and wants to be her friend. She teaches Lois how to ride a bicycle...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Dark Winter

    H.B. Broome

  • Dinosaurs

    Gene Biggs

  • Dinosaurs Aren't Forever

    Jessica Hatchigan

  • Disney Babies: 1 to 10

    Cindy West

  • Dying to Know

    Jeff Hammer

  • Elizabeth the Impossible

    Francine Pascal

  • Faith Killer

    Josh Webster

  • Far Walker

    Larry Leonard

    Cast out by his fellow lemmings because he is so different, David embarks on a journey to find out why he was born and how he can be accepted, meeting several creatures along the way who challenge or aid him...

  • Fat, Fat Rose Marie

    Lisa Passen

    In Lisa Passen's picture book Fat, Fat Rose Marie, a little girl must stand up to the class bully who keeps picking on her overweight friend....

  • The Field Day Mix-Up

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Finding Brendan

    Philip F. O'Connor

  • Firestorm

    Larry Steelbaugh

  • Follow the Sun

    Deborah Smith

    Their heritage brought them home . . . A LEGACY OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE--AND PASSIONTHE PRINCESS . . . AND THE HUNKTESS GALLATIN . . . A savvy and successful diamond broker, the part-Cherokee society girl was also a woman with a mysterious past, full ...

  • Four Courageous Climbers

    Kees Moerbeek

  • Frances Dances

    Ilene Cooper

  • Frances Takes a Chance

    Ilene Cooper

  • Francie and the Boys

    Meredith Daneman

  • Girls in the Grass: Stories

    Melanie Rae Thon

  • Great Tales of Jewish Occult & Fantasy

    Joachim Neugroschel

    Great tales of jewish occult and fantasy is an extraordinary collection of thirty one stories and novellas drawn from the greatest works of jewish literature. From horror to gentle fantasy, and from simple morals to subtle religious emotion, each mak...

  • The Hamlet Ultimatum

    Leonard Sanders

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Rita Balducci

  • Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience

    Michael Wilding

  • A Hollywood Life

    David Freeman

  • Hornet's Nest

    William H. Labarge

    FREEDOM DOES NOT COME FREEIn today's society, individuals feel they have earned the right to sit in classrooms and learn, earned the right to vote and have a sense of entitlement. Without a Veteran, whether active duty or retired is someone who, at ...

  • 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...

  • Hundred and One Dalmatians

    Ronald Kidd

  • I Know an Old Lady

    Glen Rounds

  • I Want to Be a Doctor

    Liza Alexander

  • I Want to Go Home

    Ellen Weiss

  • I'm Mad at You!

    Louise Gikow

  • Is It Dark? Is It Light?

    Stacey Schuett

  • Journey to Amanah

    Colleen K. Snyder

    When the governor decides to squelch the influence of the followers of Haben Jah, Nathan chooses to smuggle his grown children away, releasing them into the care of a trusted guide. Thus begins the journey to Amanah....

  • Just My Luck

    Emily Moore

  • Karen's Plane Trip

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Karen! Karen is going on a trip to her Granny's farm. There are all kinds of fun things to do ther...

  • King Is Coming

    Harold L. Willmington