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New Books List: 432 titles

  • Jubilee Bride

    Jane Peart

    The lake held special memories of her times with Jeff. Here they had spent hours talking, feeding the swans, and skipping pebbles across the smooth surface, creating circles within circles. One afternoon in particular Faith remembered. Jeff had kisse...

  • Bayside Madness

    Beth Cruise

  • Zack Strikes Back

    Beth Cruise

  • California Scheming

    Beth Cruise

  • Italian Short Stories

    Dimitri Vittorini

    This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a li...

  • Dinosaurs Before Dark

    Mary Pope Osborne

    A flying reptile in their own neighborhood? A tree house that appears out of nowhere? Before Jack and Annie can say "What's happening?" they're whisked away to the prehistoric past, where they meet some real monsters. Will they get home before dar...

  • Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

    Barbara Park

    Introducing the world's funniest kindergartner in- Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus Remember when it was scary to go to school? 'Cause it was your first day and you didn't know anything. Meet Junie B. Jones, kindergartner. She's so scared o...

  • Kidnapped at Birth?

    Louis Sachar

    He'll never have to do his homework again -- a servant will do it for him! Marvin Redpost suddenly figures out why he has red hair and blue eyes, while everyone else in his family has brown hair and brown eyes. He's not really Marvin Redpost at al...

  • Killing Season

    Frederic Bean

  • The Threateners

    Donald Hamilton

    “Don’t worry, we’re not going to shoot you… yet.” A ruthless South American drug lord has a plan to bring the United States to its knees. A group of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by any means n...

  • Red Hair Three

    Charlotte St. John

    Vacationing with sister Emily in Daytona Beach, Elaine heals from her breakup with boyfriend Dean and falls for college guy, Harry, but finds her troubles returning when one of Harry's friends turns out to be none other than Dean. Original....

  • The Reverse of the Medal

    Patrick O'Brian

    Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the provin...

  • White Butterfly

    Walter Mosley

    The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a preci...

  • Galindez

    Manuel Vazquez Montalban

    In the 1980s, an American Ph.D. candidate uncovers new facts about the 1956 kidnapping, torture, and murder of Jesus de Gali+a7ndez, a Basque refugee and critic of the Domincan Republic's Trujillo regime....

  • Slacker

    Richard Linklater

  • Strange Fruit

    Lillian Smith

    The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times"bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia. Alice Walker said it best: “The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book.” I...

  • The Untold Legend of the Batman

    Len Wein

    To the fear-filled eyes of criminals everywhere, he is a man without a past--a Darknight Defender of the helpless and oppressed, a towering symbol of swift and vengeful justice, a wraith-like guardian of Gotham City's asphalt corridors. But to comic ...

  • Frankenstein

    Robert Henry

  • Baby Kermit's Playtime ABC

    Lily Jones

  • Rosie's Mouse

    Mercer Mayer

  • Awesome Animals

    Gina Ingoglia

    Describes the characteristics and behavior of the Komodo dragon, chameleon, tarsier, vampire bat, flying snake, koala, three-toed sloth, giant panda, musk ox, mongoose, black rhinoceros, and basilisk lizard...

  • Really Scared Stiff: Three Creepy Tales

    Linda Medley

  • Decked

    Carol Higgins Clark

    The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would lov...

  • Ruby Mae Has Something to Say

    David Small

    Illus. in full color. Miss Ruby Mae Foote, governor of Nada, Texas, has a big ambition: to deliver a message of universal peace and understanding at the United Nations. Problem is, she's tongue-tied. To help her out, her nephew Billy Bob invents the ...

  • Confessions of Henry Hooter the Third

    Gabriel Rosenstock

  • Catacombs

    Jesse Harris

    When Mack detects a terrifying horror buried deep beneath an amusement park, he discovers a dark underworld populated by the park's sideshow freaks and and malignant clairvoyant with evil powers. Original....

  • Law of Attraction

    Penny Jordan

    Judge and jury With both her professional and personal life in such a mess, Charlotte French realized she was lucky to land a position with the prestigious law firm of Jefferson & Horwich -- even as a junior partner. But Daniel Jefferson was like ...

  • Tangled Reins

    Stephanie Laurens

    DOROTHEA WAS RESIGNED TO LIVE A SPINSTER'S LIFE. Miss Dorothea Darent had no intention of ever getting married, until a dashing stranger with hazel eyes kissed her under a blackberry tree. Haunted by their kiss, the Marquis of Hazelmere, a noto...

  • A Daring Proposition

    Miranda Lee

    Not the marrying kind Samantha didn't want to leave her job--or her boss, Guy Maywood. But how long could a woman wait for a man to return her love? Then Guy revealed a desperate secret that gave Sam an opportunity, if not to have his love...t...

  • The Unofficial Suitor

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    Beauty for sale Lady Cassiopeia Anderby wished she were not an Earl's daughter and strikingly lovely, to boot. For her heartless half brother, Geoffm, Earl of Blackstone, was auctioning her blue-blooded beauty to the highest bidder in the marriage...

  • Under the Shadow

    Jane Toombs

  • Dark Horse

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    RUNNING AMOK It was your ordinary California campaign. Rona I Ripper promised to snuff out smokers. Barry Black, Jr., fresh from his latest mystical experience, had the flake vote cornered. And newcomer Enrique Esperanza offered hope to the hop...

  • Troubled Sleep

    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Lucy And Tom Go To School

    Shirley Hughes

    Lucy has her school things ready. She has a new grey skirt, a pair of brown shoes, a pencil case and a satchel. Tom wishes that he had a satchel too. Full of warmth and good humour, the happy simplicity of childhood is captured in this richly illustr...

  • People, People, Everywhere!

    Nancy Van Laan

  • Animaze!: A Collection of Amazing Nature Mazes

    Wendy Madgwick

  • Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants

    Mary K. Brown

    When Mr. Sillypants, a funny-looking fellow wearing a funny-looking pair of pants, decides to take swimming lessons, he gets a case of last-minute jitters and must be persuaded. Reprint. Reading Rainbow....

  • Terrorism

    Elaine Landau

    Explores whether America is vulnerable to terrorism, profiling the world's most notorious terrorists and detailing how we can protect against this threat. By the author of Chemical and Biological Warfare....

  • The Ruby

    Christina Skye

    WHILE PURSUING A FABLED TREASURE, THEY TASTED THE BITTERNESS OF BETRAYAL AND THE SWEETNESS OF FORBIDDEN PASSION MADMAN'S CURSE OR RAJAH'S PRIZE? Teal-eyed enchantress Barrett Winslow flees through the gaslit London streets, stalked by a ruthless ...

  • The African-American Novel in the Age of Reaction

    William Andrews

    An anthology of three African-American literary classics features Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, and Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods. Original....

  • Death Run

    Mack Tanner

  • Death's Head Trail

    Jake Logan

  • Sherwood

    Godwin Parke

    THE GRANDEUR, THE GLORY... THE LEGEND REBORN! In the dark time, with Saxon freedom crushed beneath the iron fist of King William the Conqueror, the cry for a champion resounds throughout the land--and Edward Aelredson, Thane of Denby, answers the ...

  • Nevada Warpath

    Jon Sharpe

    After promising a dying Pony Express rider to carry the mail the rest of the way through a Paiute Indian war, Skye gets more than he bargains for when he must also escort two ladies through the territory. Original....

  • Stagecoach to Fort Dodge

    Jim Miller

    Back once again, the ex-Texas Rangers known as the Carston men are challenged when a prisoner is violently highjacked on a rough trail, leaving it up to Will to stop at nothing in his fight to get him back in the seventh book of Jim Miller’s Th...

  • Apache Thunder

    Dan Mason

  • Tomahawk Canyon

    Jack Ballas

  • Gunlock

    Wayne D. Overholser

    Joe Pardee was hardheaded, trigger-quick, and the closest thing to a father Will Beeson ever had. When Joe was gunned down defending the Box P Ranch against land-hungry settlers, Will stepped in and tried to fill Joe's shoes....

  • Longarm and the Cimarron City Sellout

    Tabor Evans

    Sent to settle a war brewing between the soldiers and civilians of Cimarron City, U.S. Deputy Marshal Long discovers that Willard Sherman, a greed-crazed colonel, has plans to sell the city down the river. Original....

  • Lone Star and the Mexican Muskets

    Wesley Ellis

    The Apaches are on the warpath, and Jessie and Ki follow their bloody trail south of the border!Cutthroat Apaches are holding an entire Mexican town hostage for money, and unfortunately, Jessie and Ki forgot to bring along their moneybags. So they'll...

  • Mountain Man's Fury

    Ralph Hayes

  • Lady Fair

    Cynthia Bailey-Pratt
    in

    A collection of romance tales by today's romance masters features a tale of love at a royal birthday party, the story of a chaperone's unexpected chance at love, and a tale of love at Brighton. Original....

  • Renegade Lady

    Sonya Birmingham

    A dedicated revolutionary, Virginian Sassy Adair is mistrustful of the handsome and secretive Roarke MacLaren, a bold privateer who has fled to the colonies to escape a British prison. Revolution is in the wind in the American colonies--and emeral...

  • First Season

    Anne Baldwin

    A FAHIONABLE DIVERSION Lord Jules Wakeford was one of the town's most eligible bachelors, an intimate of the Beau himself -- but prey to an increasing ennui with each new London Season. Then country heiress Laetitia Biddle entered society and began ...

  • Endless Seduction

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    LOVE'S RESCUE Why was that man pointing a gun at her? Lovely Leona Stegall had troubles enough, what with trying to keep her family's mercantile afloat in the aftermath of the Civil War, but she certainly had no enemies! Then the gunman grabbed he...

  • A Summer's Folly

    Sarah Eagle
    in

    A collection of romance tales by today's romance masters features a tale of love at a royal birthday party, the story of a chaperone's unexpected chance at love, and a tale of love at Brighton. Original....

  • Caress

    Rosanne Bittner

    Blake Hastings was chasing a dream --revenge on the vicious pro-slaver who murdered his father. The killer would be in Kansas, no doubt, the territory where good and evil were battling for the very souls of its inhabitants. But that dream paled for B...

  • The Summer of Discontent

    Marion Chesney
    in

    In this Regency romance novella, a proper young English lady spends her summer getting into mischief by masquerading as a servant girl.Cassandra, or Cassie to her friends, sticks out like a redheaded weed amidst her family of tidy blooms. At Bramfiel...

  • Mistress of Mishap

    Cathleen Clare

    HER HEART'S MISADVENTURE Stunning country heiress Ellen Trevayne's loveliness is matched only by her appalling lack of grace. Her talent for creating catastrophes has convinced the hapless miss that she will never wed -- a certainty reinf...

  • Bride Fire

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    The Cowboy: As wild as the untamed prairie, Alex Harte had no place in his life for a woman. But when he rescued 17-year-old Cassandra from a cruel death in the wilderness, he had no choice but to allow her to join his rugged band of mustangers. And ...

  • A Season for Scandal

    Marian Devon

    THE THREE COUSINS HAD AN IMPOSSIBLE REPUTATION TO UPHOLD AS THE DAUGHTERS OF THE INFAMOUS PERCIVAL SISTERS.... They were expected to make their come-outs together and repeat their mothers' triumphs. Unfortunately, it was only cousin Sylvia whose e...

  • The Beringer Heiress

    Jan Constant

    "I HAVE NO INTENTION OF ALLOWING YOU TO BESPORT YOURSELF IN A MANNER LIKELY TO PROVOKE GOSSIP." Newly returned from the Peninsula after the death of her father, Emma Beringer is shocked to find that her appointed guardian, Sir Julian, is not the o...

  • Hannah

    Suzanne Ellison

  • Rebel Wildfire

    Barbara Cummings

    Once again she captures the dangerous intrigue and blistering passions of Revolutionary America with the exhilarating tale of the spirited Colonial-born Savannah Stewart and the unyieldingly British-bred David Montgomery... England had bestowed we...

  • Tempted by Fire

    Thea Devine

    HE WAS HER VICTIM Amid the glittering decadence of the Brighton gaming hall, Jainee Beaumont coolly surveyed her prey. A year ago, lord Southam had taught her that women were objects to be fondled and toyed with as discreetly as the cards or dice....

  • Awaken My Fire

    Jennifer Horsman

    AWAKEN MY FIRE Beloved throughout Brittany -- a courageous champion in her people's rebellion against the English crown -- beautiful Lady Roshelle of Reales is protected by a strange and powerful magic: death will claim any many who would have his l...

  • Whispers in the Night

    Suzanne Hoos

    “You must come to Raven Manor!” So read the desperate message that convinced Britanny St. James that her friend Sorcha had met with foul play. But when she journeyed to the country estate to uncover the truth, she discovered that nothing there...

  • Midsummer Night's Desire

    Kathryn Kramer

    Banished from Queen Elizabeth's court for a murder he didn't commit, Nicholas Leighton was thrust into the dangerous and deceptive world of London's theater, where shimmering illusions defied the senses and false identities were commonplace. Betrayed...

  • Dream Castle

    Andrea Kane

    He Was the Man of Her Dreams.... The Only Hope to End Her Nightmares A slender figure emerged from the evening mist along Scarborough beach, diamond-like droplets shimmering on raven black hair, and there before Braden Sheffield, Duke of Sherburg...

  • Passion's Timeless Hour

    Vivian Knight-Jenkins

    HEALING ANGEL A gifted and dedicated army nurse, Rebecca Ann Warren had committed herself to saving soldiers wounded on the killing fields of Vietnam. But when a freak accident propelled her back to a Civil War battlefield, and into the arms of a da...

  • A Summer Folly

    Mary Kingsley

    A MISCHIEVOUS WIDOW When the dashedly handsome Duke of Tremont summoned Anne Templeton home to England, the lovely young widow left Jamaica with a wary sigh. Seven years before, as a foolish green girl, she had jilted Giles Templeton in favor of his...

  • Only You

    Elizabeth Lowell

    HER ONLY CHANCE Hardened by poverty and loss, tawny-haired Evelyn Starr Johnson seizes the opportunity to win back the treasure map stolen from her murdered foster parents. With nothing left to wager but her innocence, the wily young cardsharp sta...

  • Fires in the Snow

    Janis Laden

    A SCANDALOUS RAKE Adam, Duke of Marchmaine, watched in amazement as Miss Diana Rustin swept gracefully through the corridors of his family's manor. It was incredible that this vivid beauty bad just saved the lives of his sister and her newborn baby ...

  • Silk and Secrets

    Mary Jo Putney

    A DESERT FLOWER . . . At seventeen, fiery Juliet Cameron had it all. She was beautiful, well-traveled as the daughter of a British diplomat, and married to the dashing and adventuresome Lord Ross Carlisle. But the constraints of Victorian society ...

  • The Legacy of the Rose

    Kasey Michaels

    IN A WORLD OF SHADOWS, THEIR LOVE BLAZED BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN... LUCIEN TREMAINE: Through war's savage hell he clung to dreams of his beautiful fiancee, his loving parents, and his beloved home, Tremaine Court. But the storm-tossed night that ma...

  • Lady of the Shadows

    Paula Paul

    When Laura King was summoned to settle the estate of her late brother Anton, she feared returning to her ancestral home would stir unwelcome childhood memories. Her heart warned her that the secluded house, the Shadows, was not a safe haven for a wom...

  • Moon Shadow

    Laura Parker

    JULIANNA. PROUD AND SOLITARY ... WITH A HEART AS WILD AS HER WEST COUNTRY HOME Despite rich dark hair and striking green eyes, Lady Julianna Kingsblood had far too independent a spirit to win a husband in London's cynical marriage market. Retr...

  • The Tides of Love

    Melinda Pryce
    in

    A collection of romance tales by today's romance masters features a tale of love at a royal birthday party, the story of a chaperone's unexpected chance at love, and a tale of love at Brighton. Original....

  • A Taste of Passion

    Susan Sackett

    She'd give him her passion, but never her heart! SHE NEEDED HIS HELP When her father was framed for murder right in the middle of his controversial political campaign, Cedar Rushton was desperate to clear his name. Not desperate enough, how...

  • Georgia Fever

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    With half of her family's country inn under the ownership of Wilder Burlington, Bethany Howard must work hard to keep the business afloat and steer clear of the passionate kisses of this handsome stranger. Original....

  • Forbidden Desires

    Rebecca Sinclair

    MOST WANTED Strawberry-blonde Emilee Hogan was tired of running, but there was a twenty-five-hundred dollar price on her head and her picture was on a WANTED poster. Innocence of the crime would be no protection, Emilee knew; they'd never believe ...

  • Devil's Delight

    DeLoras Scott

    HE'S NO GENTLEMAN He's a rugged, gun-toting federal agent working undercover and Clint Morgan's style is to do his job, enjoy his women, and move on. When he gallops into the untamed Wyoming territory, it's to snare some cattle thieves. But now he...

  • Surrender the Night

    Colleen Shannon

    ONLY ONE BRAVE WOMAN COULD TAME HIS WILD HEART... "Demon" Devon Cavanaugh, Earl of Brookstone, rescued beautiful Katrina Lawson's virtue... only to seduce her with his fiery caresses. He offered the stunning commoner all of London's sparkling tre...

  • Nevada Flame

    Rochelle Wayne

    Lush, golden-haired Laura Mills began a fight for her life the night she was accused of killing the son of a powerful banker. As a blood-thirsty posse formed in town, Laura rode blindly into the unpredictable wilderness of Death Valley while Craig B...

  • Room Beneath the Stairs

    Jennifer Wilde

    As a child, Carolyn Dawson had loved playing on Greycliff, an island of the Cornish coast owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family. Several years later she returns to the island -- and Greycliff Manor -- as the bride of romantic, mysterious Grey...

  • Blackmaddie

    Jean Innes

    "Blackmaddie puts a curse on all those who try to escape her clutches" Summoned to Scotland by her ailing grandfather, Charlotte Brodie had anticipated a warm reception at Blackmaddie castle. Instead she was met with the hostility and rese...

  • The Darkest Hour

    Donna Ball

    Mistaken for someone else, Cathy Hamilton is set upon by a group of men intent on carrying out a terrible act, and she must soon rely on the assistance of police officer Dave Jenks....

  • Morningstar

    Peter Atkins

    Unable to resist covering San Francisco's most recent string of grisly murders--twenty victims in all--freelance journalist Donovan Moon investigates and discovers that, although the murderer is guilty of inhuman crimes, his victims are hardly innoce...

  • Dead Heat

    Michael Newton

    He has the godlike power of life and sudden death. In seconds he reduces the proud towers of the cityscape to a smoking inferno--and a crematorium for all the innocents within.VICAP veterans Flynn and Tanner face the most horrifying challenge of thei...

  • Death Trail

    Don Pendleton

    HIDDEN TARGET Advance-Tech Arms supplies state-of-the art ammo and hardware to a client list that includes the world's most ruthless terrorists. Now, owner Gus Webster has something big going down, stockpiling enough arms to launch an invasion. ...

  • Skeletons

    Al Sarrantonio

    As the best and worst of humanity return to the earth as a skeletal army hell-bent on conquering the living, a small group of refugees finds itself drawn together by a single vision and a shared fate. Original....

  • Stitch

    Mark Morris

    The evil Stitch preys upon young and vulnerable college students by helping them shed their old lives and insecurities and plunge into world beyond the realms of books and grades. By the author of The Horror Club. Original....

  • The Feeding

    Leigh Clark

    In a desperate attempt to save their marriage, Robin and Matt Brenner packed up their two children and drove to the mountains of rural California for a much-needed vacation. They had rented a crumbling old house that sat atop an abandoned mine and ho...

  • Prey

    Graham Masterton

    There's something in the attic of Fortyfoot House. Something that rustles. Something that scampers and scratches. Something with fur, far more terrifying than a rat. Recently divorced, David Williams takes a job restoring Fortyfoot House, a dilapi...

  • A Woman of the Iron People

    Eleanor Arnason

    Earthborn Lixia, a vistor from her damaged planet, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled for committing a transgression unheard of in her society, unite by circumstance and travel together across a perilous continent. Reprint....

  • Pixilated Peeress

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Discovering the countess Yvette hiding behind a bush without any clothes on, Sergeant Thorolf is soon enlisted to take her to Rhaetia, a wizard, in order that he might change her form and help her elude her pursuers. Reprint....

  • Dragon Tome

    Richard A. Knaak

    The awesome world of epic war -- where young Cabe Bedlam's magic battles sorcerers, mad lords, witches, demons, dark gods ... and the fiery, shape-shifting Dragon Kings. Now: the amazing saga of how the Dragonrealm came to be. Brave explorer Welle...

  • Destroying Angel

    Richard Paul Russo

    In mid-twenty-first-century San Francisco, a group of corpses is found chained together on the bottom of the Bay, and Tanner must find the killer among a city full of serial murderers, cyborgs, and street-wise kids. Original....

  • Lightwing

    Tara K. Harper

    ALONE AT THE TOP Kiondili Wae considered herself lucky to land a job as a research assistant on Corson Station. And not just any job, but the project of her dreams: the development of a faster-than-light ship drive. Her special talents--powerful t...

  • Dance of the Dead

    Christie Golden
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Larissa Snowmane is a dancer aboard a magical riverboat. For years the craft has traveled in Ravenloft, unopposed by the sinister beings that rule over the Dark Domains. When the boat arrives at the zombie-plagued island of Souragne, however, the ...

  • Plague of Change

    L. Warren Douglas

    REPUGNANT REDEMPTION beyond the antimatter barrier known as the Reef, the far-flung human colonies were dying out. Trade was decreasing, plagues ran rampant, societies had degenerated into mobs, and few ships were safe from raiders. Studying th...

  • Unnatural Diplomacy

    Martin H. Greenberg

    As human beings acquire spaceflight, they must enter into an uneasy alliance with the galaxy's elite races in a collection of stories by Karen Haber, Janet Kagan, Rebecca Ore, Harry Turtledove, and others. Original....

  • Hearts and Armor

    Ron Miller

  • Timediver's Dawn

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L.E. Modesitt's "Timediver's Dawn" was first published in mass market format. Although somewhat reminiscent of the "Change War" stories of Fritz Lieber, and though science fiction, it contains intriguing connections to the fantasy universe of Modesi...

  • The Trumpets of Tagan

    Simon Lang

    In peace or war, the starship USS Skipjack is the pride of the Federation, its brave crew trained and ready to explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy... or travel through time itself. Eisernon is home to a proud--but conquered--race of catlike...

  • Time Trap

    Keith Laumer

  • The Bushido Incident

    Betty Anne Crawford

    With the Earth ruled by a vast, Japanese-dominated empire, So Pak, son of the Earth's finest historian, puts together a probe expedition and heads for the distant world of Zeta Reticuli to rescue two mining expeditiions. Original....

  • Maelstrom

    Paul Preuss

    Sparta, a beautiful superhuman being, must rescue a team of scientists trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, an act that leads to discovery of life on another planet and perhaps the key to her mysterious identity...

  • Natural Selection

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THE CLAN WAR HAS ENDED IN AN UNEASY PEACE... sporadic Clan incursions into Inner Sphere territory supply mercenaries like the Kell Hounds with more work than they can handle ... border raids sharply divide the Federated Commonwealth's political fact...

  • Alternate Kennedys

    Mike Resnick

  • The Woman Downstairs

    Judith Arnold

    Who was the woman downstairs? Ex-cop Alex Fontana had come to Albright College to covertly investigate a charge of sexual harassment on campus. But he was having trouble keeping his mind off his mysterious neighbor. They'd never met, but every n...

  • Rodeo Rider

    Stella Bagwell

    THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Champion rider Jack Barnett had vowed never to return to the Broken Spur. Three years ago his wife had thrown him out. Rozlyn hadn't understood that the rodeo flowed in his veins. She'd made him choose -- her or the circ...

  • An Unsuitable Man for the Job

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    THE BACHELOR AND THE LADY How could confirmed bachelor Ramsey Walker keep his mind on his work when a society beauty like Miss Alexis Carlisle was living upstairs? He could get the ravishing brunette out of his life once and for all, but the bette...

  • Somewhere in Time

    Barbara Bretton

    She wanted a love that would last an eternity... ... And she was willing to travel across the centuries to find it. Emilie Crosse dreamed of a man who could inflame her senses and touch her soul. A man of commitment and passion. Through the m...

  • The Butler Did It

    Delayne Camp

    He was a real prize! Ruben Crosscroft was not your typical butler, a proper old gent in black tails. The awesome Aussie arrived sporting athletic shorts and a T-shirt. Blue-eyed, virile, tanned--he was no sexless, wooden servant.. . . Which cam...

  • Baby Makes Five

    Lacey Dancer

    THE ART OF THE DEAL Her clients considered her bizarre-the eccentric woman who lived in an isolated house nestled in the Smoky Mountains. Caitland Fox didn't care what they said. An acknowledged genius in the computer field, she had chosen her sol...

  • Cupid's Calendar

    Norma Lee Clark

    Too Late for Love? Lovely Lady Ursula Liddiard was resigned to her single state. Though she was but five-and-twenty, the world of romance had passed her by during years spent nursing her ailing mother. What man could possibly want her now? Certain...

  • Jade

    Gwen Davis

    Skyscrapers and sampans, opium-scented alleyways and penthouses tinged with the allure of perfume and money, Hong Kong beckons with the promise of a place where every desire--and every obsession--can be fulfilled. Now, as the British Colony hovers...

  • Daye and Knight

    Patricia Cox

    MICHAEL'S KISS WAS EXPLOSIVE... ...And then Jo Knight heard fireworks. Michael's touch was electrifying...and then Jo felt hot. What did Michael feel? Although they had unexpectedly met -- and were forced to share the same living quarte...

  • Fireworks!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Hell's Bells, Texas .. . 2,506 nice folks and a few old grouches. When Meg Taggart first saw that corny sign, she'd been a bride, enchanted by her cowboy husband, Jesse, and her new life. Now, after a five-year estrangement, Meg and Jes...

  • Tumbleweed

    Margot Dalton

    Other men herd tried to rope her in Until she met Scott Freeman, Lyle Callander was about as likely to settle in one spot as tumbleweed in a windstorm. She had her heart set on only one goal: being the fastest barrel racer in the West. Now, for...

  • The Seduction of Keira

    Emma Darcy

    She was supposed to be a modern-day Delilah When Keira Mary Brooks returned to Sydney, her cousin Justin greeted her with open arms. It was not what she'd expected. Neither were Justin's plans. He wanted Keira to assume the alias Delila...

  • Bewitched

    Saranne Dawson

    THEY WERE CHARMED...When the fiery feud between two rival aunts -- and witches -- began to burn again, threatening to light up ancient Shrevesbury, Samantha Bridge's only hope was to consort with the enemy. Deke Jacobs was reputed to be a siniste...

  • The Trouble With Terry

    Jacqueline Diamond

    A MAN OF MANY CHARMS He could charm children and animals. He built mystical castles and spun golden fairy tales. His every day was a magical adventure. In short, Terry Vogel was impetuous, irrepressible -- and, some said, utterly irresistible. ...

  • All the Way

    Gail Douglas

    JAKE -- He Kissed Her as if Claiming What Had Always Belonged to Him.... He caused a rush of erotic heat when he called her Kitten and brushed her lips with one perfect peach rose, but Brittany Thomas wasn't sure she dared to admit that Jake M...

  • Sophie's Attic

    Robin Elliott

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Sophie Clarkson's beloved father had been gunned down in the line of duty. And when she became the killer's next target, her only protection came in the form of a ruggedly handsome, embittered agent -- a man whose ...

  • Blazing Star

    Suzanne Ellison

    WELCOME TO TYLER CHANGES ARE AFOOT... Tyler's got a new female police captain -- and everybody's talking! Come on down to Marge's and share the speculations of America's favorite hometown. SHE SEEMS TOUGH AS NAILS When Tyler's favorite son ...

  • Dangerous Charade

    Madeline Harper

    Damsel in Distress Countess, actress, political activist--Steven Peyton had discovered that Maggie Hanson was a woman of many faces. Who was this enticing chameleon? Someone who could help him dissipate the mists of his shrouded origins? Regal ...

  • Whose Child Is This?

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    IT WAS HIS CHILD . . . IT HAD TO BE Bitter experience had taught J. D. Satterly that rich women were shallow and materialistic. But when he discovered that his ex-wife had left town with their child--the one she'd never told him about--he added "v...

  • Just Her Type

    Liz Henley

    A LONELY MAN Sydney Grayson would sooner sell her soul to the devil than her print shop to the likes of Reynolds Shepherd--no matter how tall, dark and intimidating he was. The man just wanted to bulldoze her family business and build something c...

  • Rascal

    Charlotte Hughes

    DEACON -- He Wore Shamefully Tight Jeans and a Dangerous Grin... He hadn't been back to his hometown since he'd set the stage on fire as a country music star, but Deacon Brody had never forgotten how hard he'd struggled to make it out ...

  • Wayward Angel

    Vivian Keith

    SHE merely meant to serve him with his own sauce When Miss Annabelle Winthrop first met Camford Singletary, Earl of Westerbrook, she thought him the veriest beast. His supercilious regard was only second to his rag-manners, though she discove...

  • Texas Healer

    Ruth Langan

    A Healing Heart... Dr. Dan Conway, wounded while saving a Comanche child from brutality, had been brought to a Comanche camp. His healing powers soon became legendary, yet he wanted no payment for curing the Indians of the "white man's disease." H...

  • Where There's a Will...

    Victoria Leigh

    WILL--He Wanted to Play with Fire, Her Fire .... He spotted her flirting outrageously across the crowded ski lodge and felt his body stir. Will Jackson liked to do his own hunting, but letting Maggie Cooper work her wiles on him was tantalizing fu...

  • Midnight Rider

    Cait London

    MR. JULY Heartbreaker: Lean, rugged Dan Blaylock. Part Apache, part Spaniard and all dangerous, rough-around-the-edges man. Hellraiser: Sassy, smart-mouthed Hannah Jordan--a tough, hardworking woman ... except when Blaylock shoots a smoldering gl...

  • Gulf Breezes

    Anne Logan

    She was a prisoner on his boat Samantha Bradford was beginning to regret climbing aboard the Jenny II to see if she could help its captain. Sick as he had been, Marc Dureaux had set sail, and now Sam was trapped with a stranger on the open waters ...

  • Flirting With Trouble

    Cathie Linz

    WHEN HE WAS BAD... Nicole Larson had seen Chase Ellis's type before. From the top of his tousled dark head to the bottom of his sinfully snug jeans this man was dangerous. When the undercover cop had first reported to work--incognito--at the local...

  • Double Vision

    Sheryl Lynn

    The eyes have it Who was a two-bit private eye to tell Kerry Byfield that her eyewitness testimony had convicted an innocent man? After the grueling trial, Kerry just wanted to resume her copy-shop duties in Plano, Texas, and forget about the prom...

  • Amazing Gracie

    Victoria Pade

    What recent widow Gracie Canon needed was a change of scene. So she was thrilled when she inherited a ramshackle Victorian house, chock-full of the antique "junk" she so loved. Coming home to Colorado was a safe, comfortable move--until Gracie found ...

  • Bride on the Loose

    Debbie Macomber

    Jason Manning was not the marrying kind. Until a precocious teenage matchmaker interfered and the born bachelor and sports fan found himself irresistibly drawn to single working mother Charlotte Weston... . Beneath Charlotte's reserved exterior wa...

  • Swiss Bliss

    Bevlyn Marshall

    For U.S. hotel consultant Susan Barnes, a stint in a glorious but remote Swiss inn seemed tailor-made to showcase her efficiency while protecting her emotions. Surely in the homeland of Heidi, her heart would be safe . . . . But behind the Kaiser ...

  • Shipwrecked!

    Jackie Merritt

    WHO WAS THE REAL MILES LEIGHTON? Miles Leighton was the last person on Earth Lexie Wallis would have chosen to be stranded with on a desert island! The brilliant financial wizard was intimidating, disdainful and far too good-looking for her peace ...

  • There and Now

    Linda Lael Miller

    Heartsick from Seattle's rat race, Elisabeth McCartney sought her childhood haven, never suspecting the Pine River house harbored an escape hatch to an earlier era, its key the necklace she clutched to her chest .... Tumbling over the threshold an...

  • The Stillman Curse

    Peggy Morse

    SWEET REVENGE Leandra Gallagher gasped when she saw his photo in the local newspaper. Although she hadn't seen Todd Stillman for eight years, every detail of his handsome face had been burned into her memory long ago, never to be forgotten. After ...

  • Sweet Stuff

    Judith McWilliams

    Triple-layered trouble Pastry chef Miranda Sheffield was confronted with a recipe for disaster! Take her husband, who had dumped her for a sweet young thing and demanded Miranda sell their catering business. Add an inheritance brimming with troubl...

  • Her Very Own Butler

    Helen Mittermeyer

    REX--He Was Muscled, Bronzed, a Hercules Come to Life.... He wasn't at all the kind of man she expected to apply for the job! Rex Dakeland had bedroom eyes, a great physique, and a pirate's grin--why did he want to play butler to a single mom's de...

  • Baby, Baby

    Liz Nickles

    Kate Harrison-Weil had taken more than one juicy bite out of the Big Apple, and New York City was hers. The petite blond creator of a fabulously successful magazine thrived on the glamorous executive blur that was her life, cherishing the rare privat...

  • Moon Showers

    Laura Phillips

    "FRANKLY, MY DEAR..." Sam Langford had just returned from a Civil War reenactment when he noticed the signs of life at the mansion across the road. As caretaker of the historic property, Sam grabbed his rifle and set out to catch the intruder. But...

  • Of Dolls and Angels

    Virginia Nielsen

    It was humiliating! As a teenager, Sara Eaton had got around her disabling stutter by becoming a ventriloquist. Maybe she couldn't talk for herself, but with one of her dolls on her knee, she was the life of any party. Now Sara was a child psyc...

  • Man Without a Past

    Laurie Paige

    Meredith Lawton was all woman--with a woman's hopes and dreams. She wanted marriage, children ... and Sutter Kinnard. It was time to show Sutter that his business associate's young daughter was all grown-up. But how? The man had locked the door to lo...

  • Outlaw Heart

    Catherine Palmer

    RECKLESS LADY Isobel risked her life to travel to the New Mexico Territory--but her heart was in far greater danger when she met him ... HARD RIDING MAN Noah rescued the hot-blooded beauty from a gunman --and against all odds became her lover......

  • Somebody's Lady

    Marilyn Pappano

    LADY IN WAITING . . . With her classy condo, aristocratic auto and mandatory mink, Nashville attorney Beth Gibson clearly had it all. So why did she feel she was on fast track to futility? And why did she sense that her soul was on hold? When d...

  • Only You

    Bonnie Pega

    MAX--A Blue-Eyed Knight Prepared to Fight All Her Dragons... He couldn't imagine what kind of racy business would be called Love, Inc., or why it would need his organizational brilliance, but Max Shore found the only answers he needed when a pint...

  • Suddenly a Lady

    Melinda Pryce

    Working as a lowly kitchen maid, Penelope Graves discovers that she is actually the long-lost daughter of the fabulously wealthy Lord Bellingsford and the recipient of many marriage proposals. Original....

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Anne Peters

    MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE B. J. Rawlings was the most beautiful woman Derek Coleman had ever met. She was also the most brilliant, most successful and most confident. In other words, B. J. Rawlings was perfect, and as far as Derek was concerned, tha...

  • Illusions

    Jenna Ryan

    Madness reigned...in Sante Marie des Monts, France-a land where legends and fairy tales lived...a place where no one was safe. Summoned to the foreboding castle of master illusionist Cesare LaFortune to witness his greatest magical feat, Karoline...

  • Paroled!

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    AN INNOCENT MAN Paroled ex-con Tyler McClane didn't want revenge. He didn't even have enough heart left to hate Caitlin Fielding, the beautiful woman who'd made his name synonymous with evil and helped convict him of an unspeakable crime that he h...

  • Fortune Hunter

    Deborah Simmons

    EASY PREY To save the family manor, Viscount Leighton Somerset was forced to snare a wealthy wife and the lovely Melissa Hampton was his target. Her coolness toward fortune hunters had earned her the title "Lady Disdain," but Leighton wasted no ti...

  • Garden of Fantasy

    Karen Rose Smith

    FRIEND OR FOE? As Beth Terrell drove out to inspect the plot of land in the hills near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she immediately began to imagine the possibilities. If she was ever going to establish herself as a landscape architect, this huge reso...

  • Haunting Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

    A legacy of doomed passion... Cookie Naylor? For Jared Colin, the name evoked the image of a support-stocking matron. At least, Jared hoped that his Aunt Essie's choice would do a half-decent job redecorating the house he'd just inherited. Well, C...

  • Temptation's Price

    Dallas Schulze

    A Restless Soul Trail scout Matt Prescott was not the marrying kind. He lived for the open range and the big sky--until Liberty Ballard came along. First a savage raid left the two of them stranded in the wilderness; then he ended up as her groom ...

  • Princess McGee

    Maura Seger

    SHE WAS NO ICE PRINCESS! As the daughter of Hollywood's "King of Horror," Lorelei McGee had been raised on ghosts and goblins. Now she was home, intent on restoring the family mansion to its former glory. For that reason, she hired carpenter Lucas...

  • Getting to Know You

    Joan Smith

    PILLOW TALK Davida Sinclair was a woman with a mission. She'd come home, determined to save the family business if it was the last thing she ever did. Okay, so the place was a pillow factory, but people needed to sleep, didn't they? And there was ...

  • Town Follies

    Margaret Westhaven

    The Pretty Puppet Lovely Susan Danvers had to dance to a maddening medley of tunes. Her eccentric grandmother wanted her to be an unspoiled country Miss. Her fashionable mother wanted her to be the belle of the Marriage Mart. Rakes wanted her to b...

  • Desert Rose

    Laura Taylor

    DAVID--A Hero Whose Hands Were Her Lifeline... At first he was only a voice in the darkness, comforting her when despair was all she could feel. Then David Winslow reached through iron bars to touch her hand, and Emma Hamilton knew she must survi...

  • Heartbreak Hank

    Myrna Temte

    Twenty years after high school, Hank Dawson was still a heartbreaker--and he still needed help with his homework. But these days, former schoolmate Emily Franklin was tutoring the cowboy in parenthood instead of algebra. And he was more charming than...

  • No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Beverly Terry

    WEDDING BELL BLUES The wedding was off! So Holly Webber did what any self-respecting ex-fiancee would do--she threw a party. From now on, Holly was determined to have fun and forget the pain love could bring. Shy banker Nick Donohue was secretl...

  • Home Free

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    STAR-SPANGLED DREAMS ... Anne Haynes looked for everybody's birth parents, including her own ... until her case happened to involve movers, shakers and kingmakers. Suddenly, the struggling Asian-American beauty held the key to a scandal--one long ...

  • Echoes of Roses

    Mary Anne Wilson

    FATAL ATTRACTION Country singer Sam Patton had come to Serenity Island to get away from a crazed fan. The disturbed woman had already seriously injured one person, and she'd violated his home. It was probably just a matter of time until she tracke...

  • Bittersweet Revenge

    Gail Whitiker

    He had courted her with lies but the truth was even worse Miss Regana Kently had no reason to hope that she of all ladies would attach the interest of the "Unmarriageable Earl" of Wesmorlen. That she had was plain for all to see, yet when he asked...

  • The Last Bachelor

    Diana Whitney

    CANCER MAN Confirmed bachelor Steven Collier was keeping a close eye on lovely Lenore Blaine and her eccentric, blue-haired grandmother. The older woman had found more than a bridge partner in his wealthy, elderly uncle, and Steven knew the long-leg...

  • The Bad Boy

    Roseanne Williams

    The delinquent and the debutante.... Brew Brodrick -- Rebel. Tough. Street-smart. He had a past and an attitude to match. Meri Whitworth -- Social blue blood. Gorgeous. Cautious. She had one too many secrets. Brew's night school English teac...

  • Summer Rose

    Bonnie K. Winn

    TEXAS-BOUND BEAUTY Cassandra headed West from Boston--and found shelter in the arms of a rugged cowboy who should have been her enemy... TEXAS-BORN FURY Shane wanted this spirited beauty as much as the land she had inherited. now the hardene...

  • Both of Them

    Rebecca Winters

    The Bride objected. The Groom insisted. The Wedding was for the children's sake. Bringing home the wrong baby-a one-in-a-billion chance. Yet Cassie Arnold's sister, Susan, was convinced it had happened to her. After Susan's death, Ca...

  • All the Crazy Winters

    Deborah Adams

    CRIME IS BUTING OUT ALL OVER. First there's the spectacular blaze that totals the antebellum home of genealogist Oliver Host. Then the appalling murder of librarian Estelle Carhart, a lady too softhearted even to collect fines for overdue books. ...

  • Breakfast at Wimbledon

    Jack M. Bickham

    Agent Brad Smith is assigned to protect a hot young tennis player from Irish terrorists when he uncovers an IRA plot to sabotage Wimbledon Stadium while Prince Andrew, Fergie, and thousands of spectators will be in attendance...

  • Deadbolt

    Jay Brandon

    Grey Stanton once thrived in the hard-edged criminal courts. Now on sabbatical, he's writing a book and spending time with his wife and child on their peaceful Texas homestead. Out of the blue, a young woman stops by to ask questions about an old cas...

  • Teen Idol

    Kate Daniel

    A string of accidents plague the set when a film crew arrives on her parent's ranch to film a movie, and soon Samantha Phillips begins to believe that her new boyfriend, the film's star, is to blame for the mischief. Original....

  • Strike

    L.L. Enger

    When gold is discovered near reservation land in Minnesota, former Detroit Tigers outfielder Gunsten Pedersen becomes enmeshed in a stand-off between a mining company and the Ojibwe tribe. Innocent people are murdered, and Gun must navigate the gray ...

  • Alibi for an Actress

    Gillian B. Farrell

    Hired to protect Lucinda Merrill, the star of a low-rated soap opera, from an obsessed fan, struggling actress Annie McGrogan begins the job with enthusiasm, until Merrill's husband is murdered and Annie is named the number one suspect...

  • Flying Too High

    Kerry Greenwood

    Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the sec...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    A KADDISH FOR THE DEAD Beautiful Deena Vogler's devout adherence to the tenets of Orthodox Judaism has consigned her to a living hell. Her sadistic husband Jake refuses to grant Deena a get--the religious divorce that will set her free. But provid...

  • Dead Letters

    Sean McGrady

    Divorced and disillusioned with life, FBI-trained U.S. Federal Postal Inspector Eamon Wearie throws all his energies into tracking the owner of a grisly photograph he has found in the L.A. post office's dead letter bin. Original....

  • The Fairly Innocent Little Man

    Laurence Meynell

    BEAUTIFUL LADIES, FINE SCOTCH AND A CHANCE TO BEST THE POLICE-ALL IRRESISTIBLE TEMPTATIONS FOR HOOKY HEFFERMAN Hooky's life has had some rough patches. But then that's to be expected when one's playing the role of gentleman adventurer, traipsing u...

  • Killer Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    On the trail of a serial killer with a penchant for a unique form of torture--the draining of blood from his victims' bodies--FBI medical examiner Dr. Jessica Coran suddenly becomes this "Vampire Killer's" most desired prey. Original....

  • As Time Goes by

    Lori Wick

    For five years handsome Jeff Taylor had wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford in person. But she had left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic and never returned. Jeff was older now. He had grown in his faith and as a man. Still ...

  • The Queen's Squadron

    R.M. Meluch

    FROM THE BEGINNING, WAR WAS INEVITABLE The immortals had ruled for far too long. Those who had served them and lived on other worlds were not complaining, but the free mortals claimed they had a star empire of their own, and no desire to become so...

  • Sons of Liberty

    Adam Rutledge

    In the British colonies of North America, there arose a band of brave men and women who forged a free and independent nation. Their names live on today, as does their legacy, and we call them by the proud name of Patriots. Boston, 1773. This thriv...

  • Dragonfly in Amber

    Diana Gabaldon

    From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter t...

  • Honest Illusions

    Nora Roberts

    The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father's talents--and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful world comes Luke Callahan--con man, loner, lover. He's the escape artist who captures her heart, she ...

  • Had We Never Loved

    Patricia Veryan

    THE GYPSY AND THE GENTLEMAN... It is a turbulent era of intrigue and deception; the struggle for England's throne wages fierce and bitter. In the midst of this strife is born the sinister League of the Jewelled Men, hatching another deadly conspir...

  • The Dallas Deception

    Richard Abshire

    He drinks, smokes, lives out of his office and is always seriously short of cash. Square in the tradition of down-and-out PIs, Abshire's Dallas detective Jack Kyle (introduced in Dallas Drop ) is also a sensitive, modern guy, not yet 40, as up-to-dat...

  • Bitter Recoil

    Steven F. Havill

    OBSESSION TAKES AIM… It's undersheriff Bill Gastner's most difficult assignment: going on a healthy, relaxing vacation. This hardheaded lawman isn't sure he can survive the hiking, the nonspicy, unfried food and the lack of crimes to solve. So ...

  • Southern Ghost

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she's faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has ...

  • The Devil's Card

    Mary Maher

    One May morning in 1889, the inky, already-bustling offices of the Chicago Tribune are electrified by the story of the year: the disappearance of prominent Irish doctor P. H. Cronin - and the appearance of a ghoulish, bloody trunk that may have held ...

  • Blue Bayou

    Dick Lochte

    New Orleans P.I. Terry Manion is just out of drug and alcohol rehab when he's hit with the kind of sobering news that makes detox look like a day at the beach. His friend and mentor in the gumshoe game, J. J. Legendre, has been found with his brains ...

  • Death at la Fenice

    Donna Leon

    Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brun...

  • Death of a Russian Priest

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    When Inspector Rostnikov arrives in the town of Arkush with Emil Karpo, the policeman nicknamed the Vampire, he finds a community stunned by the murder of the outspoken Father Merhum. But it is the priest's cryptic last words that make Rostnikov wond...

  • Rum Punch

    Elmore Leonard

    Pretty working-girl Jackie Burke is in a tight spot. She's just been picked up at  Palm Beach International with fifty grand and some blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky for her, the  Feds want something Jackie's got: the inside track to Ordell...

  • Atoll

    Colin D. Peel

    Asked to help the French Polynesians alert the world to the threat of radioactive poisons leaking from a lagoon, the result of thirty years of testing, John Carlisle and Zac Brennan become involved in a world of violence and political intrigue...