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New Books List: 396 titles

  • 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...

  • Young Adults

    Daniel Pinkwater

    A non-conforming group of high school boys decides to transform themselves into an artistic phenomenon, the Wild DaDa Ducks, but they find it difficult to get the recognition they desire, since no one understands what they're doing...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Willy and Hugh

    Anthony Browne

  • Wild Texas Rose

    Linda Turner

    ROSES HAVE THORNS Sullivan Jones wanted revenge! The rough, tough Texan who'd left Kerrville after a family feud had returned ready to make amends. But he was too late. His father and his ranch were gone, and the only one left to blame was the wom...

  • The Wild Blue and the Gray

    William Sanders

    1916, in an alternative world. The independent Confederate States of America has gone to the aid of its old ally Britain, and become bogged down in the stalemate on the Western Front. At a Confederate airfield in France, a new pilot reports for duty:...

  • 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...

  • When Gabriel Called

    Helen R. Myers

    STRANGER IN THE NIGHT... Lisa Howard's life was changed when a mysterious caller claimed he had a message from her late husband, Jonathan, whose life - and death - had been shrouded in secrecy. Yet from the moment she opened her cottage door to sedu...

  • What's under My Bed?

    Mary G. Eubank

  • What's in Oscar's Trash Can? and Other Good-Night Stories

    Michaela Muntean

  • What Is Christmas?

    Susan T. Hall

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Werewolf's Revenge

    Richard Jaccoma

  • The Wendy Puzzle

    Florence Parry Heide

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Walt Disney's the Rocketeer Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Walt Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Michael Teitlbaum

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

    Lyn Calder

  • Wakefields of Sweet Valley

    Francine Pascal

    Follow the riveting stories of the women who came before Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield: Alice Larson, a bold sixteen-year-old from Sweden, arrives alone in America to start a new life -- but with a broken heart. Headstrong frontier tomb...

  • The Vulgmaster

    Dennis L. McKiernan

  • A Visit to the Soviet Union

    Benrei Huang

  • A Visit to France

    Kirsten Hall

  • A Visit to China

    Benrei Huang

  • The Vision

    Tom Brown

  • 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...

  • Vengeance Valley

    Luke Short

  • 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...

  • Valley of the Devil

    Yvonne Whittal

    Take it or leave it Rafe had made his position clear when Jo protested he was demanding payment in blood. If Jo wanted to save her brother and the family business, she had to marry Rafe and bear his child. Not that Rafe was a total stranger--he...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Under the Sea

    Jean Lewis

  • Under Fire

    Lindsay McKenna

    Brash, independent Navy pilot Maggie Donovan never dreamed her career - or her heart - would come under fire. But when she teamed up with sinfully sexy Wes Bishop, Maggie had met her match. From the first, Wes was enraptured with the fiery Maggie...a...

  • Two Legged, Four-Legged, No-Legged Rhymes

    J. Patrick Lewis

  • The Twins Go to the Hospital

    Francine Pascal

    Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield need to have their tonsils taken out.  They've never stayed overnight in a hospital before, and they're not sure what their operation will be like.



    When they get to the hospital, Jessic...

  • TV or Not TV

    Ann Brown

  • The Tuesday Man

    David Daniel

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Triad

    Derek Lambert

  • The Town That Moved

    Mary Jane Finsand

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Touched by Fire

    Janis Flores

  • 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 ...

  • Too Many Drifters

    Jim Miller

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Tell Me Your Best Thing

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

    To join bossy Charlotte's new club, in which each member must disclose a terrible secret about themselves, Sophie fears that she must disclose something that has recently happened to her or risk being kicked out of the club...

  • Tattered Loving

    Angela Wells

    He was tearing her heart in two "What's more important to you," Thane had asked, "the happiness of your children, or your own fulfilment?" Sapphy knew, of course--there was only one answer to her estranged husband's ques...

  • Tales of the Hasidim

    Martin Buber

    Two volumes of the Jewish philosopher's classic work that collects and retells the marvelous legends of Hasidism.   This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Tales of the Hasidim, with a new fore...

  • 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...

  • Sword-Breaker

    Jennifer Roberson

    PURSUED AND POSSESSED BY EVIL Accused of murdering a man the Southron tribes believe to be their messiah, but who is actually the slayer of Del's family, Tiger and Del flee across the deadly Punic' desert, hunted by religious zealots and sword-dan...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Super Mario Brothers: Tatanga Invades

    Golden Books

  • Super Mario Brothers: Battle Bowser

    Golden Books

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Street Magic

    Michael Reaves

  • The Straw Tower

    T.R. Wilson

  • 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 ...

  • Strange Sea Creatures

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Stormy Reunion

    Sandra K. Rhoades

    She didn't need new complications Life was hard enough for Charlotte. She didn't enjoy working as a cocktail waitress, but she needed the job to pay for her studies. Harris Jordan was definitely a complication. Not only was he the man s...

  • Sticking Together

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • 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...

  • St. Nazaire Commando

    Stuart Chant-Sempill

  • 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...

  • Special Powers

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Something to Count On

    Emily Moore

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

    Lenox Cramer

  • 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...

  • Sleep of the Unjust

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • 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 Single Hound

    May Sarton

    This is the story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman. When Mark Taylor finds his life and art broken up by his love for an older, married woman, he turns for help to the poems of...

  • Singapore Transfer

    Wayne Warga

  • Sing Me a Story

    Jane Browne

  • Silent Thunder // Universe

    Dean Ing

  • Shores of Paradise

    Shirley Streshinksy

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Secret of Niokola Koba

    Riall W. Nolan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Scared Stiff and Other Creepy Tales

    Andrew Halfer

  • 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...

  • Saving Lenny

    Margaret Willey

    High school seniors Jesse Davis and Lenny Stevens are an inseparable pair, and despite warnings from their friends and much parental disapproval, they move in together, but when the chronic depression that Lenny has concealed from Jesse resurfaces, t...

  • Savage Streets

    Herb Fisher

  • Satin Whispers

    Suzanne Nichols

    Somewhere she had a child At sixteen, Kai Sanders gave her baby up adoption. Sixteen years later, she was stiff suffering from the trauma. She'd learned one lesson, though: Men weren't to be trusted. Nick Nickelson met Kai on the second day of ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sadie Rose and the Champion Sharpshooter

    Hilda Stahl

    In the seventh volume of this popular series, Sadie and her family are camping out near Vida, Nebraska, and are enjoying Vida Days. Sadie decides to enter the sharpshooter contest in the hope of winning the grand prize, a Winchester '76. In the proce...

  • Sacred Visions

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • 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...

  • Romance of a Lifetime

    Carole Mortimer

    "Forget him and find someone new." That was the advice Beth's worldly-wise mother gave her. "It's the only way to get over a disastrous affair." Beth wasn't sure she really wanted to see more of attractive Marcus C...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Riddler's Riddle Book

    David Levin

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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 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 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...

  • Ramsey's Law

    Will McLennan

  • 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...

  • A Rage in Heaven (Part 2)

    Ken Kato

  • A Rage in Heaven (Part 1)

    Ken Kato

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Players

    Hilary S. Kayle

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Phases in Chaos

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Pete Apatosaurus

    Nicole Rubel

    Concerned that he is so unlike his brothers and sisters, who have big teeth and eat large meaty bones, Pete Tyrannosaurus finds out that his egg had been stolen and he had been raised by the wrong family...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Perfect Stranger

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    She'd never had to turn down a hunk Sabrina Marsh didn't talk to strangers on the elevator. Except Rob Davis wasn't a total stranger. He knew her favorite food, her favorite color, her nickname--and he was sexier than a man ever had a right to be!...

  • A Perfect Pair

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    DOUBLE TROUBLE... Leah Taylor and Riker Westfall seemed destined to have nothing in common. After all, despite the attraction between them, they lived in different homes, by different rules, and went about their very different lives. Then they ...

  • The Perfect Murder

    Jack Hitt

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Patchwork

    Karen Osborn

    This stunning first novel describes a complex world of domestic disharmony, forbidden love, and family secrets festering through generations. In alternating voices, two sisters and the daughter of a third piece together their family's history in a So...

  • 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...

  • The Parched Sea

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

  • Paradise

    Judith McNaught

    Meredith Bancroft, a serenely beautiful blonde, and Matthew Farrell, an intense, magnetic tycoon, are both haunted by their once-in-a-lifetime love ...betrayed in a conflict of heartache and pain. When the Bancroft family empire is threatened by a ho...

  • Pangs Of Love

    David Wong Louie

    Cultures as well as generations clash in the funny and heartbreaking short stories that mark David Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Ploughshares Award, Pangs of Love explores the bizarre contradictions inherent in assimilation....

  • Pals

    Russell Nelson

  • 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...

  • Outback Man

    Miranda Lee

    Lost and found When Adrianna Winslow emerged from her plane's tangled wreckage in the middle of the Australian outback, she knew her life had crashed in around her--in more ways than one. Bryce McLean made that doubly clear when he came ridin...

  • Out of Time

    Helen Schulman

    The life of Kenneth Gordon Gold, a young man killed in a fatal car accident, is captured through the indelible memories, grief, and hopes of his parents, siblings, friends, lovers, and a witness to the accident...

  • Orbit of Darkness

    Ian Macmillan

  • 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...

  • Only Begotten Daughter

    James Morrow

    Call it a miracle. Call it an accident at the sperm bank. But Murray Katz, the celibate keeper of an abandoned lighthouse near Atlantic City, has been blessed with a daughter conceived from the union of his own seed and a holy ovum. Like her half-bro...

  • 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...

  • One Man's Destiny

    Brittany Young

    HAD THEY MET BEFORE ... ? Analise Foster arrived in Italy searching for the truth to a dark, ancient mystery and found much more than she had bargained for. Amid the haunting beauty of the Florentine landscape, she was drawn to the powerful Nico d...

  • On Stage

    Seth McEvoy

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Night of the Phantom

    Anne Stuart

    THE NIGHT WAS HIS Between dawn and dusk, Ethan Winslowe's weird mansion was as still as a crypt. Beneath its maze of gloomy corridors, its owner slept far from reach of the sun. As night fell, and fears and phantasms rose to haunt her, Megan Ca...

  • Next Stop: Marriage

    Anne Peters

    FIRST COMES LOVE Tina Tomlinson was mortified. She'd never expected to see Steve Bergman again. It had been two long years since their brief and disastrous shipboard romance. Now here he was in Oregon--and he didn't even recognize her! Granted,...

  • 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...

  • New York, New York!

    Ann M. Martin

    We Love NY! The Baby-sitters have always wanted to be sophisticated New Yorkers like Stacey. Well, now here's their chance: Stacy has invited them all to the city for a vacation! In between shopping and seeing the sights, the Baby-sitters manage to...

  • The New Order

    Janus Kimball

  • 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...

  • Nearly Paradise

    Elise Title

    EVERYONE KNEW... Corbet, Vermont, was nearly paradise. And Chelsea Clark and Walker Jordan could only agree to disagree about what to do to perfect it. Soon their beloved town split down the middle over that very question. Walker's half of the...

  • Navy Woman

    Debbie Macomber

    Busy attorney Catherine Fredrickson loved her job at a submarine base in Washington, but new boss Royce Nyland had her spirits sinking fast. The icy widower was remote, demanding... and incredibly attractive. Though he kept her at arm's length, he ar...

  • 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...

  • Nasty Boys

    Benjamin Wolff

  • My Stories by Hildy Calpurnia Rose

    Dale Gottlieb

  • My Romance

    Gordon Lish

  • My Name Is Bert

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • My Friend the Painter

    Lygia Bojunga-Nunes

  • 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...

  • 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--...

  • 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...

  • Muppet Kids in Frogs Only!

    Louise Gikow

  • 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 Most Marvellous Summer

    Betty Neels

    She had everything -- everything but love Matilda had beauty, charm, intelligence, a kind and generous nature--it was surprising that she was still single and uninvolved. But despite any number of offers, she remained heart-whole and fancy-free...

  • Mosiac

    Susan Moody

    English journalist Frances Brett, abandoned by the mysterious Nicholas Marquand in Istanbul, finds herself drawn into the lives of a series of bizarre people as she investigates Nicholas' subsequent murder and mutilation...

  • The Moose in the Dress

    Bruce Balan

  • Monster Mix-Up

    Bill McCay

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Messiter's Dream

    Brian Cooper

  • Message to Medallion

    Don Pendleton

    FINISH LINE In a daring plan to strike a crippling blow to the Medellin cartel, Mack Bolan, Phoenix Force and Able Team are forged into a supreme fighting unit with a ten-day mission to turn the tide in America's war on drugs. Dispatched to the...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Meet Koopa Kids

    Golden Books

  • Me: A Novel of Self-Discovery

    Thomas T. Thomas

    Who is Really Inside Your Computer? Part computer virus, part experiment in artificial intelligence, ME-short for Multiple Entity-is the first self-replicating operating system with kernels for human-style memory, inspiration, and decision making. La...

  • 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....