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New Books List: 457 titles


  • Lynn Abbey

    Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruct...



  • Erica Abeel

    Women Like Us traces the lives of four women from their undergraduate days at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1950s through the colorful and varied histories of their boyfriends, jobs, husbands, children, divorces, friendships, rivalries, failures...




  • Colin Alexander

    With the new field of industrial espionage opening up, George Jeffers, fears the his biotech studies will become the target of foreign agents, and after his partner disappears with the results of their experiments, the scientist finds himself the tar...



  • Margaret Allan

    THE PERILOUS JOURNEY The People of the Mammoth had reached the edge of doom. The Great Maya had left the world of the living. The sacred Mammoth Stone had shattered. No longer did the People have safe haven in the fertile Green Valley. But only t...



  • Stephen Amidon

    When David Webster, a young Southern writer, injures a mysterious woman in a car accident, he is drawn into an elaborate con game involving a redneck real-estate developer, Wall Street wheeler-dealers, sex, and murder....



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jizz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow denizens of...



  • Barbara Ankrum

    THE HERO WORE BLACK After reading plenty of dime novels on the subject, Grace Turner was convinced that she knew all she needed to about the "Wild West." so when the prim miss arrived in Pair-a-Dice, Texas, to hire someone for a perilous scouting ...



  • Laura Anthony

    LONELY COWBOY SEEKING... Dan McClintock had traded his desk job in Dallas for a ramshackle ranch -- and a whole lot of trouble. Could one pretty, sassy cowgirl really bail him out -- and leave his heart intact? A WILD WEST WIFE. Raleigh Travers ...



  • Katherine Applegate

    Within her first week in the Florida Keys, Summer has found a waitressing job, a wild best friend, a cousin who hates her, three very cute guys, and a whole lot of trouble. Summer's falling for Seth, but so is her cousin Diana. Diana used to go out w...



  • Katherine Applegate

    The ultimate test of Kate and Justin's love comes in the form of a fatal accident, while Allegra desperately searches for a place to stay and Grace overcomes her feelings for David with Wilton, unaware that he may pose a threat to her....



  • Nathan Archer

    Hope flares for Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager when their sensors detect a signal that could lead them to a way home. But as the Starship Voyager races to the source of the signal, the crew find themselves in the middle of...



  • Campbell Armstrong

    In Campbell Armstrong’s explosive thriller, Detective Frank Pagan fights terrorism on his home turf, where a deadly female assassin has infiltrated London’s elite social circles When a bomb detonates in the London Underground, killing dozens of ...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    "Things were never destined to be anything but explosive between us..." Simon made no secret of the fact that he was still attracted to Martha -- even if he did think she was no lady! But Martha knew he was only amusing himself with her. H...



  • Elizabeth August

    The Groom says, "I will." When Michael Flint learned that Emma Wynn was about to marry another man, he was determined to stop her. She'd turned down his proposal before, but Michael would get his "yes" this time. He knew what was best for Emma--he c...



  • Brandt Aymar

    An anthology of more than seventy accounts covers flight literature from Greek Mythology to the Space Age and includes The First Success for the Wright Brothers, First Flight to Paris, and Downing My First Hun. ...



  • Philip Baker

    A harrowing and frightening novel, a modern-day morality tale that illuminates the many hypocrises of contemporary society. In the early 1970s, as newly arrived Jamaicans are settling uneasily into the Afro-American community in Brooklyn, a high scho...



  • Anne Barbour

    Talent for Trouble Miss Jane Burch thought she was merely pursuing a harmless deception when she agreed to pose as the respectably aged and unattractive companion of her cousin, the beautiful and reckless Winnifred Timburton. But now Winnifred'...



  • Clive Barker

    LIVING AND DYING, WE FEED THE FIRE. Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its d...



  • Jill Barnett
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    Fleeing a marriage of convenience to England's most fearsome knight, the highborn Lady Linnett meets a handsome stranger . . . unaware that her newfound protector is also her betrothed, with only one week to woo and win his lady fair....



  • Mary Lynn Baxter
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    She's a headstrong woman looking for more than a one-night stand. He's a gorgeous cowboy long on Texas charm and short on staying with one gal. But on a sultry summer night, these two feel only the heat.......



  • Frederic Bean

    In the wake of Pancho Villa's alleged 1916 attack on an unsuspecting New Mexico town, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, beautiful Elisa Griensen, and rebellious cowboy Will Johnson come together in the harsh Chihuahuan terrain. Original....



  • M.C. Beaton

    A FORGOTTEN NORTH SEA RESORT IS A PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM EVERYTHING. EXCEPT MURDER. Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is more dour than ever after losing both his promotion and his girl, the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. A trip to a charming ...



  • Nina Beaumont

    Her Touch Had Healed His Body As Her Soul Had Saved His Soul Julie Muromsky was an angel worthy of love. But Theo knew he could only repay her with betrayal. For he was bound by oath and fury to his cause, and to a woman crying out from his past. ...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    ONCE SHE LEFT HIM. BUT NEVER DID SHE FORGET HIM. Growing up in a small Wyoming town, Sarah Hayden knew two things: that she loved Jimmy Roice more than anything in the world, and that one day she would leave stifling Star Valley--and therefore Ji...



  • Ira Steven Behr

    The Ferengi are greedy, avaricious, ruthless, cowardly and completely unscrupulous.For centuries the famous Ferengi Rules of Acquisition have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. These 285 Rules of Acquisition ra...



  • Cherie Bennett

    Losing her job and residence with Mr. Jacobs, Samantha is offered a temporary place to stay at her boyfriend's band's apartment, and Samantha must adjust to living with Pres while looking for a new job. Original....



  • Pauline Bentley

    HE WAS NOT THE MAN SHE'D MARRIED! The weary and battle-scarred knight returning after seven long years was hailed by his people as Alaric, the new Lord of Penruthin Castle. His child bride, Eloise, had been left a virgin in her marriage bed, and n...



  • Stephen Billias

    A gang of rejects led by byteboi and bytegirl attempt to create a new world based on classical values and culture--but the corporate soldiers will tolerate no threats to the reigning pop culture of sex and violence. Original....



  • Lisa Bingham

    It was to be the event of the season for the woman of the decade. Marguerite DuBois, the celebrated artist's model, was about to be married to a man of dazzling wealth -- until an uninvited guest abducted her from the altar. Bram St. Charles, p...



  • Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN WITH A LONG-LOST CHILD With a little finagling and a lot of fast talking, Ellen Lonetree could see the child she had given up. But she had to get past his adoptive father, Dallas Lazo--the most intimidating and virile man she'd ever met. A...



  • David Bischoff

    Finding himself in the tough Demeter City on the distant planet Altor, former New York City cop Patrick Brogan is forced to adapt to enormous changes while tackling his first case in a crime family with Earth roots...



  • Veronica Black

    SACRED LOVE AND PROFANE MURDER Two new postulants -- sunny, eager Bernadette Fawkes and prim, anxious Magdalen Cole -- have arrived at the Convent of the Daughters of Compassion to dedicate their lives to the Lord. A rare and blessed event...but Si...





  • Barbara Block

    Full of hairpin turns and gritty, non-stop action, Twister marks the second appearance of Barbara Block's hip, outrageous redhead, Robin Light--an amateur sleuth with a soft spot for puppies, parakeets, bunnies and boas...and a knack for finding hers...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Sebastian Locke, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of a powerful American family, is handsome, charismatic and a man of immense charm and intelligence. He is the chairman of the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the bast family fortune built b...



  • John Brady

    Dublin’s Grand Canal used to be a place for young lovers to take a romantic stroll. Now it’s a prime spot for drug deals and prostitution. The water that once harbored elegant white swans now washes up syringes and dead bodies. All Mary Mullen wa...



  • Celia Brayfield

    Grace, the lover, clever and passionate, ran away to find new happiness, but can't escape her guilt. Jane, the wife, loves her children, her brilliant career and her French farmhouse, but wakes up crying and alone. Imogen, the daughter, is beautiful ...



  • Paul A. Breeze

    This is a gripping thriller that combines a medical detective story with political conspiracy, and confronts some of the most pressing moral issues posed by contemporary science today.Why did Steven Hable kill himself, and how is his death connected ...



  • Marcela Breton

    A powerful collection of twenty-five short stories from Caribbean authors.

    The islands of the Antilles share a common sea and common climate -- but within this tropical world is an extraordinary diversity of race, language, and history. This ...



  • Betty Brooks

    A DISTANT, LONG-AGO TIME It was the prospect of a dreaded arranged marriage that drove Brynna Nordstrom to free the men from her father's dungeon and set sail with them from her native Norway. Across the ocean she would seek out her brother, Eri...



  • Caryl Brooks

    Envying her friend Kimberley's beauty, intelligence, and otherwise ideal life, Maggie begins to suspect that something is very wrong with Kimberley and learns during one fateful summer about teenage mental illness. Reprint....




  • Sandra Brown

    Kendall Deaton courageously risks her own life and that of her unborn child to testify against her ex-husband, a violent white supremacist, and his father. Now, she pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear ge...



  • Lydia Browne

    A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN... EDITH: She ran the Farmer and Maid Matrimonial Service, using more than a little intuition to support herself. But this was one job she wished she could turn down... JEFFERSON: The Missouri rancher wanted Edith to help...



  • Margaret Brownley

    LIKE MONDS...OPPOSITE HEARTS Despite her lovely red-blond hair and exquisite looks, unconventional Kate Whittaker will never find a husband as long as she keeps shocking the town with her newfangled inventions. That is just fine with Kate unitl sh...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    Phil Marsten isn't just Stevie Lake's boyfriend. He's a fellow rider and he knows how to push all Stevie's buttons. When he issues a riding challenge that she can't turn down, Stevie starts training Belle intensely. In fact, her workouts threaten to ...



  • James Buchan

    A thriller about the last major crisis of the Cold War finds American and British intelligence officers involved in romance and murder as U.S., British, German, and Russian diplomats secretly meet to contend for the fate of Europe....



  • Melvin Jules Bukiet

    Chronicling the lives of Jews in America, nine stories combining history, fable, theology, and myth include searching for an impossible gem in Manhattan's diamond district, a university library that catalogues human evil, and a rabbi matching wits wi...



  • Eve Bunting

    By moonlight in the quiet forest, a young boy and his family decorate their favorite tree with popcorn, apples, tangerines, and sunflower-seed balls as a gift for the animals of the woods. "Sure to become a Christmas favorite, this beautifully illust...



  • Rex Burns

    Like many major cities, Denver, Colorado, is beset by gang violence: gunfights to decide who will have the right to sell drugs in a neighborhood, drive-by shootings for slights real or imagined, murders because someone is wearing the wrong color ... ...



  • Robert Byrne

    When a teenager is fatally injured after being hurled from a high-intensity amusement park roller coaster, the park owner agrees to remodel the ride much to the chagrin of its designer, and when the newly refurbished ride makes its first test, disast...



  • Carol Cail

    DEAD STOP When Maxey slammed on the brakes, the Genesis tape kicked on and a runaway van passed in front of her eyes. Who was sending cars rolling dean the hills of Boulder, Colorado? And had this one been aimed at Maxey? Maxey Burnell runs an alte...



  • Eric Campbell

    A plane crash strands thirteen-year-old Chris on the immense Serengeti Plain, and only he can save the two injured men whose lives depend on him. “The exciting action in a fascinating setting, coupled with the intriguing spiritual element, make...



  • John Dickson Carr

    Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell a tale, or rather two tales, one true and one false. Now, an English expert in criminology forces the evidence t...



  • Sally Carr

    Lora was falling in love...with her kidnapper! Nothing had prepared Lora Seaton for a man like Luc de la Falaise! Faced with the man's devastating good looks and Gallic charm, Lora found it all too easy to forget that she was Luc's prisone...




  • Angela Cash

    Hating being looked down upon by the rich kids at an elegant resort where she works, stable hand Lexie Tucker pretends to be the wealthy resort owner's daughter but fears that her secret will spoil her newfound romance with handsome Max Bannemore. ...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    FROM THE AGE WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER... THE IMMORTAL ROMANCE THAT BECAME A ROYAL SCANDAL All the colorful characters and events of fabled Camelot come vividly to life in this unique new account of the legendary King Arthur, Lancelot du Lac, ...



  • Elizabeth Chandler

    A love beyond life...a danger beyond doubt.In a romantic and suspenseful collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, love’s unbreakable bonds are put to the test.When her boyfriend, Tristan, died, Ivy thought she’d lost everything, even...



  • Jill Churchill

    Jane Jeffry, suburban sleuth extraordinare, and her friend, Detective Mel VanDyne, have braved a blizzard to join her friend Shelley at a Colorado ski resort. In spite of having all their kids along, Jane and Shelley imagine a few mindless days of re...



  • Daphne Clair

    I'M GETTING MARRIED! While Tara wished her ex-husband well in his intended marriage, she couldn't deny her attraction to him. There was just no future in it -- Sholto had made it clear that he couldn't forgive or forget her, and the ed...




  • Catherine Clark

    Crash course in love.... Lilly Cameron is having a great time cruising around town in her father's car -- until she crashes. When arrogant Charlie Roark arrives with his tow truck, they hate each other on sight. But they quickly realize they need ...



  • Alana Clayton

    A GIFT FOR SECOND SIGHT Lord Ransley had seen lovely Lady Claire Kingsley flit from man to man at balls and routs like a butterfly on the wing. She seemed to be the ton's merriest widow...which was why he deemed it highly unlikely that his physi...



  • Jo Clayton

    Freed from ages of imprisonment in the Diadem, an alien artifact, Shadith discovers that she has the power to transfer her consciousness into any living creature, a talent that she uses to try to destroy a syndicate that creates civil wars as a touri...



  • Amanda Cockrell

    Deer Shadow, a young tribal member who is believed to possess mystical powers, pursues a forbidden love with a handsome, exiled warrior who bears maize seeds but whom the Yellow Grass People fear is a threat to their ancient ways. Original....



  • Denee Cody

    AS PRETENDERS FIGHT FOR THE IRISH THRONE When her father is dethroned by a usurper, Eve MacMurrough, Princess of Leinster, is forced to wed Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke. Cursing her fate, she vows never to give her heart to the despised Norman...



  • M.T. Coffin

    SCREAM IF YOU SEE YOUR PARENTS! Something very weird has happened in the little town of Broxton. All the grownups have suddenly disappeared into the night. Babies are crying. Toddlers are calling for their mommies. And teenagers! -- teenagers are ...



  • Elaine Coffman
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    Quinn Westcott, Marquess of Waverly, is duty-bound to provide a home for his young ward until she is wed. But his future changes dramatically when he meets a mysterious maiden on a night ashimmer with moondust, mischief and unexpected love....



  • Peter Collington

    In the wordless storyboard format and soft pastel drawings that have become his trademark, Peter Collington offers an enchanting solution to the age-old mystery of what the tooth fairy does with all those teeth!  He follows an industrious tooth fai...



  • Max Allan Collins

    In a future world of global warming that has covered all land masses with water, a single man learns of the possibility of dry land and challenges the remaining human survivors to help in the search. Original. Movie tie-in....



  • Ray Connolly

    A colorful assortment of characters--from supersexed, arrogant superstars and an army of production staff to an overwhelmed producer and dictatorial director--assembles to create a sweeping, over-budget, disastrous cinematic epic. 75,000 first printi...



  • Peter Corris

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    The 13th Cliff Hardy mystery

    Someone...



  • Greg Cox

    When millionaire industrialist and scientist Tony Stark puts on his gleaming, high-tech armor, Le becomes Iron Man! When Stark is kidnapped, his corporation must turn to another armored hero, and Stark's best friend, War Machine, to fulfill the ranso...



  • Neva Coyle

    For the young women in the class of '57, it was a time of leaving behind nostalgic memories of jukeboxes and summer nights for the hopes, dreams, and uncertainties of the future.

    Karissa Hill, a popular member of Summerwind High's pep squad, th...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    Dark Lord The peasants called him the Count of Albion, and they both feared and revered him. A fighter for Italy's freedom, the mysterious nobleman preferred the night hours to mask his missions ~ and to shroud his tormented soul. Sequestered in the...



  • Millie Criswell

    In a dazzling new trilogy from Millie Criswell, three sisters from frontier Kansas -- wild Heather, sweet Laurel, and prim Rose -- will steal your heart away with love and laughter. In each delightful book, their homespun values have them clashing wi...




  • Caroline Cross

    THE SINGLE DAD Though Alex Morrison's three little sons had terrific taste in picking out a dream mom, he had no intention of marrying the woman they chose. The boys wanted a mother, but Alex wasn't getting hitched -- ever. THE MATCHMAK...



  • Charlene Cross

    Alana of Llangollen rejoiced the moment she was widowed . . . but her jubilation swiftly turned to fear. Proudly Welsh, she had married Gilbert Fitz William, one of King Henry II's Norman vassals, to safeguard the land that was her birthright, thus e...



  • Beth Cruise

    When a local TV station begins airing a new teen game show, Megan believes that she and her friends can combine their respective talents to form an unbeatable team, but competitive stresses quickly cause problems. Original....



  • Beth Cruise

    Lisa's taking her dieting way too far, and the gang is worried something serious may be wrong. They're not sure what to do to help their friend until Screech does some research and comes up with a plan to convince Lisa that she's perfect just the way...



  • John Dalmas

    SOMETIMES ARROGANCE IS A BIG MISTAKE.... The Macurdies had been farmers for generations, and Curtis Macurdy would have been content to spend his life with his exotically beautiful wife Varia, earning a living by tilling his plot of land in the Ame...



  • Kit Dalton

    While investigating attacks on Idaho settlers, and amusing himself with a lusty lady, Buckskin Lee Morgan discovers that a group of cowboys are masquerading as renegade Indians to steal land. Original....



  • Rex Dancer

    The author of Bad Girl Blues returns with photographer Andy Derain leaving the rat race for carefree New Orleans and then the islands--and landing in the middle of drug smugglers, blackmail, high-speed motorboat chases, and deadly shootouts. 12...



  • Rebecca Daniels

    A DESPERATE SEARCH... Mallory Wakefield was desperate to find her missing twin, lost in the merciless desert. Navajo medicine man Benjamin Graywolf appeared to be her last hope. But his heart seemed unjustly hardened against her. LEADS TO DESIR...



  • William R. Dantz

    Inventor of a computerized implant that controls a criminal's urge to kill, Dr. Anna Kane installs it in serial killer John Marlon, who promptly escapes into New York City's underground network of subways and sewers...



  • Bart Davis

    When Phillie Liebowitz's lusty screenwriter partner dives headfirst into an empty pool, Phillie rules out suicide and delves into a suburbia pockmarked with sexual deviance, drugs, violence, and more dead bodies to find out the truth about her murder...



  • Anne De Graaf

    The war that had brought them together was now pulling them apart. Would they forever be scattered like-Bread Upon the Waters?

    German by nationality, Polish by allegiance. Hanna Muller is involved with her family in the dangerous business of wo...



  • Jim DeFelice

    With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Jake Gibbs is ordered by General Washington to infiltrate enemy lines and intercept a transmission of orders by English General Burgoyne that will prompt an attack on the Hudson River Valley. Original....



  • Tom Deitz

    There is a realm where the living are forbidden--an infernal place of shadows and souls that only the damned may enter. And now a spirit beckons from this land of terrible fire--challenging a courageous young Cherokee sorcerer to walk a world of dark...



  • Angela Devine

    When all is not what it seems... Rose had come to Cornwall full of hope and excitement and instead had found herself confronted with the greatest dilemma of her life! His name was Greg Trelawney. She thought he was a simple fisherman -- in fact he...



  • Thea Devine

    DANGEROUS LIAISONS Forced into a marriage of convenience with a dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she yearns to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught ...



  • Gary Devon

    Swept off her feet by an intense young man who claims they met in college, an aspiring actress soon finds herself married to the man, whose secretive past explodes on their wedding day with the emergence of two murdered bodies. Reprint....



  • Gene DeWeese

    While exploring an unknown region of space, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a strange nebular dust. Upon further investigation, they discover a planet called Krantin on which the plant and animal life, as well as the civilization are dying. A ser...



  • Debra Dier

    Victorian debutante Laura Sullivan couldn't believe her eyes. Aunt Sophie's ancient spell had conjured up the man of Laura's dreams -- and deposited a half-naked barbarian in the library of her Boston home. With his bare chest and sheathed broadsword...



  • William C. Dietz

    HUMAN AND MACHINE. ELITE AND EXPENDABLE. THEY ARE THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED The Hudathans are on a rampage. They have created their own corps of cyborgs using copycat technology and psychotic candidates. They have refitted their hardware. Reloaded ...



  • Walt Disney

    A graphic-novel adaptation of the newest Disney animated film follows the tradition of its successful predecessors, combining the story of a Native American princess and her relationship with an English colonist with full-color Disney artwork. Origin...



  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Mar...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe are on the scene when Bayport High's newest soccer player, Carlos, is nearly killed, and when they discover that Carlos's father has been abducted, the Hardy boys become involved in a South American political conflict. Original....



  • Stephen Dobyns

    Featuring Charlie Bradshaw, the local cop turned private eye, and his politically incorrect pal Victor Plotz, the action centers on the drama of the horse auctions, replete with julep-drinking gentry, high-money buyers, and fast-talking auctioneers. ...




  • Cameron Dokey

    Chance Davies wanted to marry Sarah Anderson for just one reason: she was the sole heir to her father's vast estate, an estate that would provide Chance with the wealth and prestige he never had because he was the son of a Yankee in South Carolina on...



  • Robyn Donald

    "I'm going to stick close to you...closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you... " He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation. Stephanie felt it ...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    Who'd been sleeping in her bed? When Tory Caswell attended her sister's wedding in a magical old Victorian resort, her mind was filled with images of bouquets and garters. But when she awakened the next morning, she thought she was still dreaming....



  • Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    THE MAGELORDS ARE PLUNDERING THE CIVILIZED GALAXY. ONE PLANET AT A TIME First their scoutships appeared above the outplanets. Raiding parties followed, then whole armadas bent on loot and conquest. The Mages break the warfleets that oppose them. T...



  • Eileen Dreyer

    WHY ARE DEAD LAWYERS TURNING UP IN GRACE HOSPITAL'S ER...AND WHO CARES? Summer is supposed to be the season of homicides, not suicides. Unfortunately some St. Louis lawyers have other ideas. A surprising number are arriving at Grace Hospital's eme...



  • Elizabeth Duke

    "Delia and Julius Branson invite Andrew Carstairs and friend to join them on board Mistique" Tess was thrilled when her boyfriend Andrew received an invitation to meet Julius Branson -- the man who, if her suspicions proved correct, was the f...



  • Judith Duncan

    SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGED Eden McCall was still dazzled by the sweeping valley view from her parents' front porch. Still frustrated by her family's problems. Still crazy about rugged loner Brodie Malone... But Eden had another life row, and a d...




  • Stuart Dybek

    In Stuart Dybek’s Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places -- in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek...



  • Michael C. Eberhardt

    Hawaii's governor has been brutally butchered savaged with the bloody trappings of the island's ancient warrior rituals. The D.A.'s office wastes no time in arresting the most obvious suspect, Peter Maikai, popular leader of the Hawaiian grassroots p...



  • T.J. Edwards

    Bryan, Corey, and the rest of the gang are amazed when their soccer tournament is pre-empted by the discovery of a stolen treasure, and the treasure's ghost owner seems to want revenge when a series of accidents plague the Sonics. Original....



  • Elizabeth Elliott

    DARK AND FORBIDDING... Lady Tess longed to return in peace to her beloved Remmington Castle -- but she never thought that the price of reclaiming her land would be marriage to the most notorious warlord in all of England. Fierce and fearless, Kenric...



  • Robin Elliott

    MOTHER AT HEART Raising her late sister's baby had been a joy for Tessa Russell. But now her family's happiness was threatened by her unwelcome desire for an arrogant, impossible man -- a man who would never acknowledge this child as his.....



  • Delia Ephron

    "HILARIOUS. . . A CHARMING, ENTERTAINING READ."
    --Los Angeles Times
    "WONDERFUL. . . Eve Mozell is having a lousy day, and she hasn't even gotten past breakfast yet. Her father, a senile ex-alcoholic whose idea of a good joke is goosing his woma...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    It's Detroit, 1950s: the age of Sputnik, Joe McCarthy, and fast money. Connie Minor is a washed-up newspaper man who is about to get a second shot. His ticket: sell America Henry Ford's new dream car, the Edsel. Unfortunately for Connie, everybody in...



  • Tabor Evans

    When beautiful widow Constance Farnsworth is threatened to give up her ownership of a railroad line in the Colorado Mountains, she hires Longarm for protection, forcing him to choose between his badge and the lady's virtue. Original....



  • Elisabeth Fairchild

    Feeding a Fever Food along with everything else had lost its savor for Lord Julian Endicott. And unless lovely and impoverished Jeannette Saincoeur could find a way to please his palate, she would lose her position as cook and return to the life o...



  • Jane S. Fancher

    "Today I looked into the Rings and saw a new and better world...." Those heretical words marked the beginning of a new era, not just for Darius Rhomandi and those who followed where he led, but for the entire civilized world. For when this young p...



  • Coerte V.W. Felske

    Nick Laws, an elbow-rubber among beautiful people, explores the world of high fashion and finds his greatest challenge in capturing the attentions of models and staying above the darker side of the industry...



  • E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    Retired professor Andrew Basnett had been at loose ends since finishing the book that was for so long his full-time occupation. A country visit with his old friends Mollie and Ian Davidge seemed like just the diversion he needed. And, indeed, the vis...



  • Robert Ferrigno

    Linked together by a crime some thirty years old, five men find themselves engaged in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse when one of them, in an effort to bury the past, decides to kill the others. Reprint....



  • Gayle Feyrer

    Driven by desires she had never before known, Veronica Danti melted in the stranger's arms. He was her destiny, the lover foreseen in the tarot cards, the arrogant aristocrat who paid her in golden coin. She was married, he was betrothed -- union...



  • Joy Fielding

    "YOU'RE IN DANGER. YOU AND AMANDA." The warning draws Bonnie Wheeler to a place she has never been -- To the brutally slain body of her husband's ex-wife... To the shattering of her perfect world by a murdered woman's secrets... To a place wher...



  • Nigel Findley

    DIRK MONTGOMERY IS BACK Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, knows the dark byways of Seattle and the Amerind city of Cheyenne. He knows when to take chances and when to take cover. But when a megacorporate exec demands payme...



  • Erin Flanagan

    Resisting her little sister's advice to call on her guardian angel for help with her unexciting life, Amelia finds herself believing in angels when a series of miracles begin to fulfill her wildest dreams....



  • Rebecca Flanders

    The Secret Face of Fear The man Aggie McDonald had struck down on the rain-swept highway remembered absolutely nothing of who he was. But one thing was undeniable--he was no ordinary man. The strange light in his golden eyes spoke of an ancient hu...



  • Donna Fletcher

    His shoulders were broad, and muscles that had to have been developed by years of hard labor bulged from beneath his half-opened, white linen shirt. His legs were the width of mighty oaks that stretched the black material of his breeches to the limit...



  • Justine Korman Fontes

    In a storybook adaptation of the new motion picture, more than fifty photos from the movie accompany the story of a most amazing pig who teaches others to let go of hurtful stereotypes of others. Original. Movie tie-in....



  • Ford Madox Ford

    A cross-genre evocation of a writer's life in the Mediterranean, this account documents the happy years Ford Madox Ford spent living in the South of France with his young artist lover, Biala.. Blending fiction, history, memoir, travel, and cookery ...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    When nine scientists discover a faraway planet that is miraculously like Earth, they immediately move in for a closer look but discover that nothing is as it actually seems and their survival will be challenged...



  • Natalie Fox

    Playing with fire! Caroline Maxwell was a bright, intelligent single woman with a busy career and an adorable four-year-old girl in her care. Ellis Frazer, dynamic financier, was a confirmed bachelor with a sophisticated life-style. They wer...



  • Valerie Frankel

    NO PAIN, NO GAIN -- AND NO WAY OUT! A true believer in following one's appetites, Wanda Mallory, P.I., wouldn't be caught dead in a health club...at least until she's hired by former tennis pro Jack Watson to trail his philandering wife, Ameleth...



  • Kate Freiman

    A lonely Canadian road. A patch of black ice. And Miles Kent's vintage Corvette was history. So was his memory...his identity. All the bitter amnesiac had was a gentle woman to save him. Tender Sasha Reiss took him into her home, into her hea...



  • Mark Frost

    he ancient holy texts are missing. The death of the world approaches. Six extraordinary men have shared one vision of a black tower and a river of blood. Somewhere in the desert wastelands of America, the ultimate battle will be waged. The greatest...



  • Ruthe Furie

    DANGEROUS LOOKS An ugly divorce and the well-deserved death of her abusive ex has left Fran Kirk unfettered and unemployed. So when the fly-by-night owner of an insurance investigating firm/personal dating service offers work, the former housewife...




  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    Robin Heatherton is a spy for the Confederacy. Disguised as a young boy, she infiltrates Yankee forces during the Battle of the Wilderness, but when her cover is compromised, she must crawl back to her own lines with vital intelligence. Meanwhile, Un...



  • Jane Gentry

    WHAT'S A DAUGHTER TO DO? Cara Fairchild thought her mother needed a man. And since Elizabeth was so young and beautiful Cara knew that any man in his right mind would be happy to have her. So how in the world had her mother settled on Steve Ri...



  • Catherine George

    A face from the past... Catherine had come to the glorious Minho region of Portugal to see her friend Ana married. She never dreamed that she'd find Ana's older brother, Conde Eduardo Barroso, so magnetic--or that she'd be a key player...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    Saying goodbye for the summer to her Spanish friend, Anna, who is going away on vacation, Sarah plans to use a special library book to learn Spanish, but her plans are thwarted when the book is inadvertently left locked in Anna's house. Original....



  • Michael Gilbert

    The infamous Siege of Sydney Street forms the author’s background to this gripping novel. Luke Pagan, a young ambitious and Russian-speaking police officer is co-opted by the security services to observe Russian revolutionaries who are wanted by th...



  • Anton Gill

    An assassination attempt on Hitler, which took place in July 1944, was the culmination of 11 years of untiring effort by members of the German Resistance, to topple the Nazi regime. This account of their campaign of propaganda and sabotage marks the ...



  • Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    She wasn't afraid to show her need -- or to enflame his... Maggie Adair was magnificent when riled, John Martin decided with admiration - no lioness could have protected her cub more fiercely! But once Maggie learned that her adopted daughter an...



  • Mary Gillgannon

    Leopard's Lady begins with a carefree moment snatched from the strife of thirteenth-century England. As Astra de Mortain frolics in a woodland pool outside the nunnery at Stafford, she in unaware of the stranger who is watching her. He is Richard Rei...



  • Robert Gilliam

    A collection of stories about kings and princes are told from the viewpoints of queens, servants, and mythical beings and includes the works of such authors as Stephen R. Donaldson, Jane Yolen, and Alan Dean Foster....



  • Monique Gilmore

    Souls Aflame When Celeste Dunbar discovers that her live-in lover is involved in computer espionage, it's just the excuse she needs to walk out on a relationship that was going nowhere fast. Then she moves into a new apartment across the Potomac.....



  • Robert Girardi

    Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apa...



  • Christopher Golden

    The Gospel of Shadows has been lost, and the existence of vampires has been revealed. Peter Octavian is trapped in Hell, but he has given his allies a mission to discover the secret origin of vampires. Once they were legend. But now the entire world...





  • Neil Gordon

    For twenty-six-year-old Luke Benami, life has always been a study in absolutes: black and white, good and evil, truth and lies. A father hailed as a national hero, a pioneer in the birth of Israel. A brother scorned as an army deserter, a criminal on...



  • Gallagher Gray

    In this third of the Hubbert & Lil "cozy with an edge" mystery series, written by Katy Munger using the pen name Gallagher Gray, Mungers examines the question, "Can a person love someone for fifty years, even when they never see them?"When the love o...



  • Muriel Gray

    He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.Life is good in Silver, a small town high in the Canadian Rockies. Sam Hunt is a lucky man. with a loving family and an honest income, he has everything he wants.But beneath the moun...



  • Sharon Green

    Taking their rightful places as rulers of the land, shapeshifter Queen Alexia and warrior champion King Tiran are confronted by a terrible sorcerer who enchants the queen and threatens to enslave the kingdom. Original....



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    The sixth volume in the popular Cat Crimes series gathers original mysteries by Dorothy Cannell, Barbara Collins, Ed Gorman and others, set in such exotic vacation spots as the French Riviera, Monte Carlo, and the Carribean....



  • Philippa Gregory

    From its bustling docks to its elegant houses in 1787, Bristol, England, is a city where power and wealth beckon to those who dare... Josiah Cole wanted nothing more than to live in luxury and excess, like the richest of men whom he admired. But h...



  • Nicola Griffith

    Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, now turns her attention closer to the present in Slow River, the dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survi...



  • Thorarinn Gunnarsson

    An uneasy peace has descended over the Highlands as the new Dragonlord must deal with contentious factions and ambitious rivals who threaten to undermine Thelvyn's pact with the rogue dragons. The dragons cannot forget their ancient fear and hatre...




  • Wendy Haley

    COME HOME TO EVIL, CONNIE... Fourteen years have separated Connie Matthias from her family... until a call from her troubled son brings her back to Virginia Beach...back to a dark and unsettling place called home. COME HOME TO DIE. But her famil...



  • Elizabeth Hand

    LOVE IS ANCIENT BUT EVIL IS ETERNAL Like all new students, Katherine Sweeney Cassidy moves with caution at Washington, D.C.'s University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine. It is a strange place of brooding shrines and gleaming towers, guar...



  • John Hands

    Taras Stepaniak, a half-Russian, half-Ukrainian opportunist, is hired by the leader of Russian militant nationalists who want to seize the Soviet nuclear arsenal, but Taras's divided loyalties threaten to tear him apart. Reprint....



  • Brian Harper

    Vacationing at a remote island off the coast of Florida, Steve and Kirstie Gardner hope to save their troubled marriage, but they are unaware that a person from Steve's past, a serial killer, is hiding from the police on the same island. Original....



  • Alexis Harrington
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    Oregon's Leah Whitman has her future mapped out: running her store and marrying her minister fiancé. Austin Ryder, her rugged new neighbor, isn't part of the equation . . . until Leah finds an unusual amulet one magical night when the moon is full....



  • William Harrington

    The wife of a wealthy Los Angeles businessman is found murdered in her bed with her lover, with the words Helter Skelter painted in blood on the walls. Columbo, America's favorite TV detective, must ask himself whether the horror of the Manson himsel...



  • Betsy Haynes

    Unable to believe it when a guidance counselor is murdered and her boyfriend is accused, Ashlyn Brennan becomes determined to prove that Drew is innocent, until she stumbles across a death certificate with her own name on it. Reprint....



  • Betsy Haynes

    Su-Su wants a date for the big upcoming beach party, and when someone calls the dating hotline she and her friends operate to say that she has two dates and wants to give one away, the other boy sounds just like Su-Su's brother's best friend Chris, s...



  • Gar Anthony Haywood

    Gar Anthony Haywood's wildly acclaimed new mystery sends Joe and Dottie Loudermilk to Washington, D.C., where they make the mistake of visiting their radical pacifist son Eddie. For as long as Joe and Dottie can remember, they've been bailing their k...



  • Jane Heller

    When a golf club’s first single female member is murdered, spunky club wife Judy Mills takes a swing at sleuthing in this “witty, well-plotted” mystery (Publishers Weekly).   Judy Mills has it all: A handsome husband, a thriving career, an...




  • Richard P. Henrick

    Receiving a sudden War Alert while on a routiene patrol, the crew of the Trident submarine USS Phoenix is suddenly cut off of all communication--including the one cancelling the War Alert--and reemerges with the wrong ideas. Reissue....



  • Lynn S. Hightower

    Homicide cop David Silver and his Elaki partner hunt an arsonist/killer who exterminates humans and aliens alike Saigo City is caught in the grip of a savage murder spree by a perp who kills without compunction, then eliminates the evidence by torchi...




  • Kate Hoffmann

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? America's sweetheart Josie Eastman does. An Olympic skating star, she's always been a role model, always done what she was told. And she's sick of it. So she dumps everything and jumps straight into the arms of the ba...



  • Diane Hoh

    Four friends become the prisoners of a crazed killer who decides who will live—and who will die Molloy, Lynne, Daisy, and Toni are headed for summer school at Salem University, where they’ll officially be freshmen in the fall. But their j...



  • Robert Holdstock

    A NOVEL IN THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING MYTHAGO CYCLERyhope Wood, Mythago Wood, is the great forest steeped in mystery, whose heart contains secrets that change all who come there.Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know...



  • Gary L. Holleman

    The tropical Hawaiian islands become the site of unspeakable terror for a group of vacationers who seek the sun, sand, and surf but instead encounter ancient gods, witches, and the demon forces of hell. Original....



  • Arlene Holliday

    HOT: He was known as El Buitre -- the legendary bandit of the California gold fields. Some called him hero. Katelyn Ferguson called him killer -- for what he'd done to her father. Now she vowed she wouldn't rest until El Buitre was caught...a...



  • Hugh Holton

    Margo and Neil DeWitt seem like any other fun-loving, super-rich couple until Chicago Police Commander Larry Cole sees through their affluent charade. While investigating the death of a fellow officer, Cole stumbles across a pattern of killings th...



  • Garrett Hongo

    Well-known writers such as Amy Tan join up-and-coming talents including Chang-rae Lee to speak about their personal experiences as Asian Americans, covering such issues as racism, generational differences, learning English, and education. Original....



  • Jordan Horowitz

    Reuniting with the beloved whale friend he once rescued, Jesse is called upon to save the day again when an oil spill threatens Willy's family and the oil company plans to put two younger orcas in an aquarium. Original. Movie tie-in....



  • Jennifer Horsman

    A STRANGER'S EMBRACE Condemned as a witch, sensuous, strong-willed Linness of Sauvage bravely faces her doom -- until a gallant knight comes to her aid and rescues her from the flames. But after a night of magnificent passion, her dashing champion v...



  • Bill Hotchkiss

    Winning a beautiful Native American from a ruthless gunslinger in a card game, rebellious preacher's son Jesse "Ace" Tanner is forced to rely on his gun and his wits in order to escape and find the hidden promise of the Western frontier. Original....




  • Elizabeth Jane Howard

    The first novel of the Cazalet Chronicle, this masterpiece in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs takes us to the Cazalet household in 1930s England, when the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. Elizabeth Howard paints an irresistibl...



  • Hannah Howell

    As wild as the rugged north country where she was raised, Saxan Honey Todd has sworn to avenge the murder of her twin brother. Recklessly, she gallops across the English countryside in pursuit of the man she believes to be his murderer: Botolf, Earl ...




  • Richard Hughes

    The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes’s monumental historical fiction, “The Human Predicament.” It opens with Hughes’s hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a...




  • Jerrie Hurd

    SHOWDOWN AT THE PURPLE SAGE Miss Ellie Wells forced Seth Watkins out of the second story of her Purple Sage Saloon, naked, at gunpoint. Never mind that he had just given her the Purple Sage for her birthday -- he didn't pay his whiskey bill, a...



  • Paula Huston

    An aspiring piano student at an exclusive Baltimore conservatory finds her musical education mirroring pivotal developments in her personal life and influenced by the experiences of her prestigious classmates...



  • Kathy Ice
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    An anthology follows the stories of a grieving Hurloon Minotaur, a dragon whelp's hatching egg, and warring armies, and includes the writings of popular fantasy authors David Drake, Morgan Llywelyn, and S. M. Stirling. Original....



  • Cheryln Jac

    FROM THE UNDYING FIRES OF MIDNIGHT ECSTASY... When a terrible fire killed his family and destroyed their plantation, Alexandre Beaumondier thought it was the end of the Beaumondiers' legacy of blood. But there was one survivor: his lovely sister, Suz...



  • Elizabeth Jackson

    The Notorious Viscount Miss Susan Winston had heard shocking stories about the handsome and heartless Viscount Everly Once upon a time he had had a heart only to have it broken by a faithless beauty He had more than evened the score by the scandal...



  • Ellen James

    There's a naked man in her bed! Even worse, it's her ex-husband. Sexy, handsome, exciting -- Adam Prescott's always been able to sweep Jen Hillard into bed. He's just never cared enough to sweep her into his heart. But now tha...



  • William Jaspersohn

    Ten years ago Peter Boone was a rookie Red Sox pitcher with a future. Now he's a private detective with a past, working the back roads of pastoral Vermont instead of mean city streets. But even rural retreats can harbor unexpected evil. A private eye...