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New Books List: 476 titles

  • Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman

    Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed --...

  • Stranger Souls

    Jak Koke

    When Dunkelzahn the Dragon, the newly elected president of the United Canadian American States, is assassinated, throwing the Shadowrun universe into chaos, it falls to Ryan Mercury--Dunkelzahn's most trusted special agent--to save the universe. Orig...

  • Delusions of Grandeur

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Ghost of the Jedi

    John Whitman

    Hoole, Tash, and Zak are in trouble. They've ruined one too many of the Empire's twisted experiments, and they're on the run from ultra-evil mad scientist Borborygmus Gog.



    They go to Nespis 8, an abandoned space station. There are rum...

  • House of Cards

    Peter David

  • Into the Void

    Peter David

    Roll Call: The Crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur:Captain Mackenzie Calhoun: An unorthodox, decisive young captain who loves his crew and his ship, and loves testing their limits even more. Commander Shelby: A woman of strong opinions and strong values, Sh...

  • Star Trek: Federation Travel Guide

    Michael Jan Friedman

  • Slant

    Greg Bear

    In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a r...

  • Bad Sign

    Easton Royce

    When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the bizarre,ritualistic murders at Grover Cleveland High School, they stumble upon a strange planetary phenomenon- one that might have a disastrous effect on two cheerleaders.But are Terri and Margi...

  • Buck Rogers: Life in the Future

    Martin Caidin

    The authorized story of America's first and foremost space hero! Here, for the first time, is the true story of Buck's life in the future, as only he can tell it--from the moment of the terrible crash that should have ended everything to the moment h...

  • Commitment

    Roby James

    TRUTH OR DARE Gifted with a rare and amazing power over human minds, Class A talent Ronica McBride is ready to assume her lofty position in the Com's interstellar empire. Then a horrific incident leaves her stranded on a primitive planet without h...

  • Days of Bitter Strength

    David Wingrove

    In the spring of 2232, hopes for a more humane world become manifest in the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine." There, Emily Ascher, once a freedom fighter, lives as Mama Em, mother to the orphans of a war-devastated land.

    But unto the ...

  • First Contact Anthology

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original tales of contact between humans and extraterrestrials ranges from a military conspiracy to keep the public in the dark about such visits to an ancient Egyptian's brush with an interstellar empire. Original....

  • Loch Ness Leap

    Sandy Schofield

    A MONSTER LEAP... Dr. Donald Harding, theoretical physicist, believes only in science. His son Travis believes in the unbelievable. It's March of 1986 when Sam leaps into Harding, who has come to Loch Ness, where his son is attempting to prove ...

  • The Monster of Minnesota

    Mark Sumner

    "BIG JELLY" FILLS BELLY WITH FOUR NEW VICTIMS! When investigative reporter Savannah "Savvy" McKinnon gets a phone tip about four mysterious deaths in northern Minnesota, her instincts tell her to follow up. Sure, maybe the people were killed by th...

  • The Other End of Time

    Frederik Pohl

    Earth, 2031: Alien contact.

    Signals are received: a crude depiction of creatures pantomiming the cataclysmic destruction of the universe.

    Soon after, scientists note unusual radiation emanating from an abandoned Earth-orbital observator...

  • Our Town

    Eric Elfman

    When Mulder and Scully visit Dudley,Arkansas,home of the famous Chaco Chicken factory,they find a small town with a big secret- no one in Dudley ever seems to age. Scully's determined to find out why,but if she's not careful,she might lose her head t...

  • Redliners

    David Drake

    THE MISSION: REDEMPTION-OR DEATH The troops were walking dead already, so there wasn't much of a downside. Major Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming me...

  • Second Fire

    Mike Moscoe

    When a designer plague threatens to engulf Earth, two twenty-first-century soldiers--Launa O'Brian and Jack Walking Bear--journey back in time to 4000 B.C., where they must change the history of a wise and peaceful tribe. Original....

  • Tales of the Age of Apocalypse

    Scott Lobdell

    Stan Lee Presents a Tale from the Age of Apocalypse!: By the Light-- (Marvel Comics Group) - Trade paperback (1997) by Scott Lobdell The Age of Apocalypse, one of the most popular and best-selling X-Men stories ever, is revisited in this sequel -- ...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

    More than forty stories and poems are included in this anthology of the year's finest horror and fantasy fiction, accompanied by a roundup of the year's fantasy films and a guide to the year's notable fiction. 20,000 first printing....

  • Bad Memory

    Duane Franklet

    Top troubleshooter Barry Shepard heads a courageous counter-assault that may spell difficult personal consequences when the world's largest computer company comes under assault by a demanding and brilliant criminal hacker. Reprint....

  • Balling the Jack

    Frank Baldwin

    A young man searching for the perfect time, the perfect woman, and the perfect life finds the rush he needs to sustain him by gambling his paycheck every week--in this this fast-paced, funny excursion into New York's betting parlors, rock clubs, and ...

  • Behind the Scenes

    Rennie Jones

    Declaring twenty years long enough to stay married to the same women, Roger Gainey decides to walk out on his wife, Sheila, his partner in an electronic retailing empire. She had been a college student whey they met; he had been a TV game show host. ...

  • Brain Dead

    Eileen Dreyer

    Only hard-hitting journalist Daniel Murphy, a fellow outsider, seems to share emergency room nurse Timmie Leary's anxiety over a mysterious series of deaths in a Missouri hospital. By the author of Bad Medicine. Reprint....

  • Conspiracy Theory

    J.H. Marks

    Completely obsessed with alleged government conspiracies, a New York City cab driver sees sinister plots and cover-ups in even the most ordinary of situations. He also has no hesitation to report them all to an acquaintance, a bright, yet skeptical l...

  • Dark Homecoming

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Former New York City police officer Lew Croaker faces the most daunting choice of his life--whether to kill a man to provide his niece with the kidney she desperately needs, or hunt down the man behind the evil scheme. Reprint....

  • Death in a Dry Season

    John Wells

    Hired by Bernie D'Angelo to find his brother, private eye Frank Sweeney traces Nick D'Angelo to Atlantic City, where he finds the missing brother burned to death and embarks on a desperate search for a killer...

  • Death Will Have Your Eyes

    James Sallis

    Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For al...

  • Detective

    Arthur Hailey

    A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to sta...

  • Dive to Oblivion

    Richard P. Henrick

    During a routine training exercise near the Bahamas, the U.S.S. Lewis and Clark mysteriously vanishes and then reappears minutes later, wallowing in the gentle swells of the Pacific, halfway around the world, with only one incoherent sailor on board....

  • Exchange Alley

    Michael Walsh

    "JFK assassination buffs will enjoy bushwhacking their way through this labyrinthine debut…Walsh orchestrates a gripping tale of the horrors that were set in motion the day a president was murdered." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In this powerful debut no...

  • Eye of the Agency

    Richard Moquist

  • Fade to Black

    Tony Gibbs

    Harbormaster Neal Donahoe and U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Tory Lennox investigate several related crimes, including the case of a local painter who was blinded by acetone and the death of an ambulance driver...

  • The First Stone

    John Briley

    Under the direction of the Israeli secret service, a beautiful American spy marries a rich Saudi, but when the Mossad calls her to action, she is torn between duty and a new-found love for her husband....

  • Foamers

    Jon Berson

    FBI agent Jennifer Szczymanski and train enthusiast Larry McBryde must overcome their initial suspicion of each other to track down a saboteur whose next target is one of the longest railway tunnels in North America...

  • Friends to Die For

    Jane Sughrue Giberga

    Crissy and her friends live the good life in Manhattan, as they all come from wealthy families and have access to the best places in town, butt when murder strikes and one of their friends dies, Crissy realizes what really counts in life....

  • Funny Bones

    Joan Hess

    YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING If you love to be skewered by rapier wit or prefer punch lines with your police procedurals, this delightful collection of screwball mystery stories will get you where you giggle. Fifteen of today's best writers gang up to make...

  • The Game Show Killer

    William Harrington

    For over twenty-five years, Columbo has been the most popular , and persistent, detective on television, drawing millions of viewers a week. William Harrington's compelling new novel pits the famous TV detectives against one of the most brilliant and...

  • Good Intentions

    Patricia O'Brien

    HER DREAM OF A PEACEFUL LIFE IS SHATTERED... Newly divorced and hoping to recapture a little of the security she knew as a child, radio talk show host Rachel Snow is buying the Chicago house she was raised in. But Rachel's illusion of safety ends...

  • Great Flying Stories

    Frederick Forsyth

    Collects some of the best short stories about aviation by this century's greatest writers, including H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Len Deighton, J. G. Ballard, and Richard Bach. Reprint....

  • The Inner Sanctum

    Stephen Frey

    David Mitchell, fast-rising portfolio manager at the exclusive Sagamore Investment Managing Group, has just been handed his future on a golden platter. If all goes according to plan, a struggling plane-manufacturing company will win a coveted governm...

  • The Last Good Night

    Emily Listfield

    EVENTUALLY, EVERYONE HAS TO PAY FOR THE PAST. Laura Barrett is the rising star of television's top-rated news show. With a devoted husband and a lovely baby girl, she's finally taking charge of her life. But suddenly, there are things Laura can't ...

  • Lying on the Couch

    Irvin D. Yalom

    From the bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients. Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexua...

  • Marker

    Lowell Cauffiel

    He runs a $100-a-week tab at the Anchor Bar, keeps in touch with a friend who dealt weed in the Sixties, and sips bourbon from a Styrofoam cup on his drive home to the 'burbs. Now, Judge Nelson Connor of the Third Circuit Court is about to pay for hi...

  • Mavis

    Brenda K. Marshall

    Mavis Schmidt Holmstead has always been the strong one. The oldest of six sisters who grew up on a North Dakota farm, Mavis has spent a lifetime comforting and cooking, mending and managing. Now a man is dead, and the confessed murderer i Mavis--w...

  • Murder! Murder! Burning Bright

    Jonathan Ross

    When Castle Caldbeck Wildlife Park gamekeeper Henry Fowler and the secretary to the park's veterinarian are found murdered, their bodies entwined with each other, Detective Superintendent George Rogers is called in to find the killer....

  • No Time for an Everyday Woman

    Wenda Wardell Morrone

    When Senator Fred "Bandit" Colman is assassinated, his mistress, Lorelei Muldoon, discovers that vigilante lawmen, the media, Senator Colman's widow, and an interior decorator moonlighting as a smuggler are all out to get her. A first novel....

  • Operation: Fantasy Plan

    Peter Gilboy

    A Fantasy Plan. . . For eighteen years, Peter Gaines has traveled the globe as one of the CIA's top agents. Suddenly this former golden boy is unceremoniously cut loose from the Company. But the ethically bound Peter refuses to let go. Without autho...

  • Pilots Die Faster

    C.W. Morton

    When a female fighter pilot is found stabbed to death on board an aircraft carrier, Special Agent Bud Wilson of the Navy Criminal Investigation Service is called in to find her murderer and reveal how it relates to a growing confrontation with the Ru...

  • Players

    Clay Reynolds

    When two bumbling thugs mistakenly kidnap would-be actress Vicki Sigel instead of mob player Eddy Lovell's daughter Barbara, they are plunged into a world of corruption, conspiracy, and murder--where they are pitted against each other. Reprint....

  • Predators

    Daina Graziunas; Jim Starlin

    For nearly 10 years, FBI agent Ira Levitt has been tracking David Vandemark, a wily killer with a tragic past and a twisted ability to read criminal minds. His victims are drug dealers, child molesters, and serial killers. Levitt knows Vandemark cann...

  • Rehoboth

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    A brother and sister search for each other after being separated by an Indian prince and his war. . .

    Gifted adult-fiction author Angela Elwell Hunt continues her exciting American historical Keepers of the Ring series. In book 4, Rehoboth, Daniel...

  • Siberian Light

    Robin White

    A man lies dead, sprawled in the bedroom of apartment #8.  Rock music blares as two militiamen follow the bloody trail upstairs. . . and into the quick, cold slice of a razor-edged blade.

    The victim was a criminal.  But two honest cops wer...

  • The Starlite Drive-In

    Marjorie Reynolds

    A captivating novel. Richmond Times-Dispatch

    Reynolds creates a genuine and engaging young narrator and maintains heat and suspense on every page. Detroit Free Press

    A mystery, a coming of age novel, a tragic love story, a rich evo...

  • Sweepers

    P.T. Deutermann

    THE U.S. NAVY MADE HIM THE ULTIMATE KILLER. NOW THEY CAN'T STOP HIM... It begins with a routine police investigation. A beautiful woman is dead. A detective needs answers. And a newly appointed Pentagon admiral is scrambling for his career and for...

  • Amethyst Dreams

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    Shining with intrigue, allure, and passionate suspense, Amethyst Dreams is Phyllis Whitney at her most spectacular -- a story bejeweled with hypnotic prose and spellbinding secrets... Seeking shelter from her own broken dreams, Hallie Knight answers...

  • The Case of the Bad Luck Fiance

    Sheryl Lynn

    Hell has no fury like a woman scorned... Cattle rancher and single father Tristan Cayle had his sights set on one goal--traveling to Colorado to meet a woman he'd fallen for on the Internet. But the instant he arrived at the Elk River Resort, run ...

  • Familiar Heart

    Caroline Burnes

    The man had a way with cats -- and with women Animal trainer Brak Brunston was reputed to have a mystical link with his animals -- a connection so strong that even Ashley Curry felt its power the very first time she laid eyes on the man. When Bra...

  • Her Destiny

    Aimee Thurlo

    Out of the fire... He'd saved her from the flames, but a was Sheriff Gabriel Blackhorse's own heat Lanie Matthews feared. The first time she looked into his night-dark eyes she felt a stirring of recognition, as though she'd come home. But Lanie w...

  • The Lucky Ones

    Doris Mortman

    As the Presidential election heats up, four women compete for the most coveted prize of all in a highly charged, male-dominated arena. ZOE VAUGHN is the new foreign policy advisor to Ben Knight, a senator making a bid for the Presidency -- and Zoe's ...

  • Missing Pieces

    Joy Fielding

    How far will a mother go to protect her family from a madman?An unrivaled master of psychological suspense, Joy Fielding has written her most chilling and intricate novel yet--a compulsively readable look at the razor-thin line between daily domestic...

  • Promise Me

    Margaret Allison

    Alexandra Webster is an accomplished reporter for The New York Times whose career--and life--has hit a slump. She jumps on a potentially explosive story when the socialite wife of business tycoon and former Olympic boxer Steve Chapman dies under myst...

  • Risky Games

    Olga Bicos

    HOW MUCH WOULD A WOMAN RISK TO BE IRRESISTIBLE TO MEN? Beautiful, brilliant McCall Sayer has unlocked the secret of sexual attraction. To the right buyer, the formula is worth billions. But is it worth dying for? Suddenly, McCall is caught in a dang...

  • Sweet Deception

    Susan Kearney

    She kidnapped...the groom! To find her cousin's murderer, lady P .I. Denise Ward needed billionaire Ford Braddock, husband to the victim, who was about to remarry. With cool professionalism she abducted Ford on his wedding day in his limo, spirite...

  • Blossom Time

    Joan Smith

    A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME; One of those dashing rogues too attractive to ignore. Lord Harwell featured largely in Rosalind Lovelace's fantasies. But she had too much common sense to let dreams color her reality. Harwell was a friend and neighbo...

  • Camilla's Fate

    Judith A. Lansdowne

    WILL A DARING ROMANCE LEAD TO FOLLY OR FORTUNE? The independent and beautiful Miss Camilla Quinn had never experienced the slightest interest in any of her suitors, even the Marquis of Lilliheun, surely the best catch of the ton. So she could sca...

  • The Counterfeit Heiress

    Isobel Linton

    A DISCREET LADY Helen Sterling wandered through the glorious gardens of Cornell Castle in a veritable daze. An heiress whose fortune came from trade, she felt her behavior at this summer house party must be beyond reproach -- especially in view of...

  • Lady Semple's Secret

    Shirley Kennedy

    LOVE WOULD NOT BE DENIED.... Meg Quincy, while mindful of her position as a lady's maid, was blessed with a keen mind and the courage to stand by her beliefs. Her pride, her beauty--and her delightful reading of poetry--drew the devilishly han...

  • My Lady Mischief

    Elisabeth Kidd

    The Bored Beauty Lovely young Lady Antonia Kedrington should have been superbly satisfied with life and love. She had wealth, position, and a husband who seemed as adoring as he was handsome. But Antonia wanted more-and more was not long in coming...

  • The Reluctant Lord

    Teresa DesJardien

    A LADY WEAVES A TANGLED WEB... Shooting a prospective suitor in the foot was a bit drastic, but the free-thinking Miss Marietta Hampton did not wish to surrender her independence to a husband. That scandal...the tabbies of the ton in a dither until...

  • The Runaways

    Barbara Hazard

    Race to the Altar Once Harriet Winthrop Bates and the Earl of Morland had been madly in love -- until a foolish quarrel sent them on their separate ways. Now they had come together again as a beautiful widow and a lord whose wife had passed away. ...

  • The Seductive Smuggler

    Donna Davidson

    A BOOKISH MISS GETS A LESSON... IN LIFE AND LOVE! Miss Harmony Roan lived a secluded life as an assistant to her scholarly father. All she knew of the world she'd learned in books... and nothing she had read prepared her for Daniel Rockburne. Tho...

  • Summer's Secret

    Sandra Heath

    Time for Temptation Was Summer Stanway a beautiful young, twentieth-century American, mourning a lost love and facing an empty future? Or was she Olivia Courtenay, a stunning young widow in Regency England, following a path of fiery passion and fl...

  • Good Girls, Bad Boys

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Coming back to New York to escape her former boyfriend, Harley, Lisha takes a job as an intern at the TV talk show Trash, but she soon realizes that Harley has followed her, calling her on the phone, sending frightening notes, and threatening...

  • The Warrior's Bride

    Lisa Samson

    When Johanna is tested by a life-threatening affliction, she must learn to place her trust in the mysterious knight--and in a God whose tender mercy is new to her. The Warrior's Bride is a stirring story of hope, healing, and steadfast love....

  • Term Limits

    Vince Flynn

    Taking America back...one politician at a time What if America's leaders were held accountable for their broken promises--and made to pay for their corruption? Vince Flynn brings to life a chilling scenario of Washington under siege--in the provoc...

  • Deception on His Mind

    Elizabeth George

    Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detect...

  • The Leaning Land

    Rex Burns

    Jurisdictional disputes, competing agents - the F.B.I., the Bureau of Land Management, and Indian police - and the usual distrust of the citizens of small towns when it comes to dealing with folks from the "big city" combine to make Denver police det...

  • Shot in the Dark

    Tony Gibbs

    For latter-day sea dog Neal Donahoe, the world's waterways are more than a career. They're a communion. Now, as an officer with Santa Barbara's Harbor Patrol, he's about to find this gift indispensable. For the craft and crew of the DEA's Blue Thunde...

  • Skeleton Canyon

    J.A. Jance

    Brianna "Bree" O'Brien neverretumed from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular teenager who hadsfolen away undercover of darkness to rendezwus with herboyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra. Perhaps youthful rage, jealousy and savage pass...

  • The Truth Can Get You Killed

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    The last thing that Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner wants to do on New Year's Day is investigate a murder. But when the body is that of a conservative, homophobic judge and it is found outside a popular gay nightclub, the task takes on a new urg...

  • Up Jumps the Devil

    Margaret Maron

    On thing Deborah Knott knows for sure. Just when everything is going great -- up jumps the devil. In this case he's Allen Stancil, a black sheep back in North Carolina after one of the Stancil clan--rednecks all and proud of it -- gets shot to de...

  • Copper Moon

    Roxanne Conrad

    When music teacher Abby Rhodes meets a devilishly handsome man on her doorstep in her small Texas hometown, she becomes possessed by his late mother, a woman she begins to believe was murdered by her son. Original....

  • Daddy Warlock

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Daddy by Chance Seven years ago, a masked and spellbinding stranger at a costume party swept Tara Blayne away for a night of dreamlike passion. Her son, Harry, was the very real result. Harry was definitely not your usual kid. His gift for maki...

  • A Darker Dream

    Amanda Ashley

    HEART OF DARKNESS In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, or warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too ...

  • The Fairy Bride

    Tess Mallory
    in

    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....

  • Fire Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE MYTH In a Wales surrounded by mist and magic, Hawk Glade was once a place of peace and happiness. Now burying her fallen brother, Jenna fears her home and her clan are doomed by an enemy who has made her the last to bear the name of Hawk. She ha...

  • Heavenly Bliss

    Sara Jarrod

    Laura materialized first, floating into the room and settling near the empty fireplace. She was lovely, like a porcelain doll... "Welcome to Bliss House." Before Jill could find her voice to reply, an imposing gentleman appeared at Lau...

  • Jade

    Patricia Simpson

    What woman could ignore a man like Connor MacKenzie? After a car accident stole two years of her life, Jade Brennan returns to her family's grand hotel in Seattle, struggling to pull her life back together so she can reclaim her young daughter. ...

  • MacBroom Sweeps Clean

    Emma Craig
    in

    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....

  • One Star-Spangled Night

    Ashland Price
    in

    Love bursts through time when modern day RN Alison Kimball visits Colonial Williamsburg and dreams of a handsome soldier from long ago. When wounded Revolutionary War officer Richard Adams finds himself far from the battlefield with this pretty nurse...

  • The Shore Unknown

    Coral Smith Saxe

    A DAMSEL FROM THE PAST Elinor DeCortenay hailed from a world of castles and conquests, sorcerers and spells. So she had no trouble accepting the notion that a magic charm could send her to another time and place, where leather-skinned demons rode ...

  • Somewhere, My Love

    Karen Fox

    As an officer of the Alliance, Sha'Nara had been trained to destroy the psychics who sought galactic domination. But on a mission to protect the Director-General's daughter, the beautiful bodyguard was abducted by one: Tristan--the most dazzlingly se...

  • Storm Prince

    Terri Lynn Wilhelm

    HE BROUGHT HER WONDER This towering man of uncanny strength and astonishing beauty, who leapt out of the stormy night to save Verity and her father. Naked, wild, and powerful, he was a warrior from a place that time had forgotten. SHE BROUGHT HI...

  • The Trouble with Fairies

    Pam McCutcheon
    in

    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....

  • Whatever You Wish

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders
    in

    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....

  • Jungle Land

    Sharon Zukowski

    Manhattan P.I. Blaine Stewart wakes to find a dead body on her doorstep. The police believe it's a mugging gone bad, but Blaine knows otherwise. The dead man, a Wall Street stockbroker named George Walden, was on his way to hire her. And now it seems...

  • Legwork

    Katy Munger

    WALKING THE WALK She's smart, talented and durable, but Casey Jones has had more than her share of bad luck in her life -- including a short stretch in a Florida pen that haunts her still. In Raleigh, N.C., where Casey now lives, a prison record m...

  • When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

    Lawrence Block

    In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his...

  • Evil Eye

    Michael Slade

    When a shadowy assassin sets his sights on the elite members of Canada's Royal Mounted Police, two investigators finds themselves up against a demonic killer with ties to the occult. By the author of Ripper. Original....

  • First Degree Burn

    Peter Lance

    It happens every day in the City. Gas is poured. A match is lit. Buildings, bodies, and dreams go up in flames. Fire Marshal Eddie Burke, Jr., walks among the wreckage. A different kind of detective for a different kind of crime... A fire rages in...

  • Freedom to Kill

    Paul Lindsay

    An Ebola-type virus unleashed at Disney World. Random car bombings on interstate highways. Children's medicine bottles laced with poison. All the work of a demented but brilliant terrorist determined to blackmail the White House and bring the U.S. go...

  • Robak's Witch

    Joe L. Hensley

  • Tarnished Icons

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    "Rostnikov is quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko in Gorky Park."
    --San Francisco Examiner

    In the topsy-turvy world of post-communist Russia, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov's work is...

  • Denial

    Keith Ablow

    Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes, and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother...

  • Fragments

    James F. David

    A team of psychologists has gathered in a small college town to conduct a revolutionary experiment: To find five "savants" with extreme and diverse aptitudes, in order to create a sixth composite intelligence using new cybernetic technology. The firs...

  • Unnatural Exposure

    Patricia Cornwell

    A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details--expert removal of head and limbs--mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpeita, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via...

  • Baltic Commando

    Peter Leslie

    Webster was reckless, unorthodox, a daredevil with no respect for authority and a tireless womaniser. But he got results, and as a Special Services major, that was all that mattered.

    His latest assignment: train a team of super-tough demolition exp...

  • The Case of the Missing Movie

    Della Rowland

    The Clue Club loves to solve mysteries. They are very good detectives and solve cases all over town. There are cases at school, the baseball field, and the park. Read the cases and try to figure out the solutions. The clues are in the stories or the...

  • Cold Blood

    Lynda La Plante

    Prime Suspect, the enormously successful two-time Emmy Award-winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Turning her talent from the screen to the page...

  • A Diamond Fell into My Pocket

    Morris Spurling

  • Geneva Rendezvous

    Julie Ellis

    Susan didn't know if she believed in ESP. Greg, her new husband, made light of it. Yet ever since the plane had touched down in Geneva, Kathy, her six-year-old daughter, had been filled with terror, saying her mother would die if they stayed in Switz...

  • Murder in the House

    Margaret Truman

    He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistol in his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again - in a hail of rumor and character assassination. Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman's suici...

  • Murder to Music

    Cynthia Manson

    A country-and-western singer slips out of the spotlight in Charlotte Hinger's The Family Rose...A temperamental diva takes center stage in Agatha Christie's Swan Song...A Wagner fan becomes a murder suspect in Michael Underwood's Death at the Opera.....

  • The Riverview Murders

    Michael Raleigh

    “The mystery fiction that Sara Paretsky fashions from Chicago’s South Side is fully matched in Raleigh’s gritty North Side tales” (Publishers Weekly).   Margaret O’Mara’s brother disappeared decades ago. But now that his last known a...

  • The Law of Revenge

    Tess Collins

    The law of survival . . . Fifteen years ago Alma Bashears fled Contrary, Kentucky, severing her Appalachian roots to forget the memory of a brutal gang rape. Now she's a savvy attorney at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. But an urgent call from ...

  • Obstruction of Justice

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE Two people have died in Lake Tahoe in shocking accidents. In a nearly empty parking lot, a hit-and-run driver kills probation officer Anna Meade Hallowell. High up on a jagged mountain, wife abuser Ray de Beers gets what he...

  • Anora's Pride

    Kathleen Webb

    Anora King hadn't planned to pretend she was married, but her new neighbors in Boulder Springs, Colorado, leapt to that conclusion. For a struggling young woman, the deceit had its advantages until the sinfully handsome new marshal came to town. Jess...

  • Be Mine

    Cait Logan

    COME TO ME She dropped from the tree into his arms like a ripe peach, a fiery russet-haired beauty he wanted to devour. But mountain man Sam Taggart came to the Recht Montana homestead to hire a housekeeper, not find a wife. He was out to make his...

  • The Bride Thief

    Susan Spencer Paul

    THE BALDWIN BROTHERS DID NOT TAKE THEIR BRIDES CONVENTIONALLY Isabelle Gaillard had learned that the hard way when Sir Justin Baldwin had whisked her away bodily under cover of a moonless night. Now, though he'd been promised to another, she was his...

  • Capture the Wind

    Kit Garland

    SHE DARED TO LIVE LIKE A MAN She raced by him on her schooner Mischief, beating Fleetwing and its legendary skipper in a race at sea, proving that the ship she designed, built, and sailed was the fastest craft afloat. Then Dominique Willoughby offer...

  • Daring Bride

    Jane Peart

    Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, he...

  • Desperate

    Millie Criswell

    He was desperate for revenge With a heart of stone, former Texas Ranger Rafe Bodine set out across an unforgiving land to hunt the outlaw who murdered his family. Tortured by grief and guilt, he vowed there would be no jail cell for the killer, no s...

  • Destiny's Warrior

    Kit Dee

    Even imprisoned and bound in chains, the magnificent Apache warrior is a fearsome sight -- yet as a doctor, Aurora Spencer cannot let his wounds go untended. And when she touches his powerful body and looks into his proud eyes, she is jolted by a con...

  • The Duchess of Carbon County

    Kat Martin

    previously released under title: Lover's Gold May 1991 Publisher: Diamond Books ISBN: 1557735050 ISBN13: 9781557735058 When a hired gunman came to her small Pennsylvania town, Ela...

  • Ever His Bride

    Linda Needham

    THE DARKEST HEART His looming form blocks the firelight. His voice is like midnight fog, shivering along her skin. Yet Felicity Mayfield must marry hard, cold Hunter Claybourne, or go to debtor's prison. Boldly, she proposes a bargain to the wealthy...

  • Farm Girl

    Linda Shertzer

    Even the most sheltered heart can't hide from love... CALLIE Her aunt's death left her a farm to run--and no farmhands to help her... HARDEN Intelligent and proud, lie was looking for a job, not a handout... Callie knew that her do...

  • The Firebrand

    Laurel Collins

    SHE WAS CALLED THE FIREBRAND... Caroline Harlowe is determined to have the two things men bare told her she cannot -- a voice, and the freedom to use it. Fervently committed to the abolition of slavery, she becomes one of the first women students at...

  • Fly with the Eagle

    Kathleen Harrington

    BY DREAMS ENCHANTED A Cheyenne princess of mixed blood, Jennifer "Morning Rose" Elkheart eagerly accompanies her senator grandfather on his goodwill tour abroad -- dazzling London's high society with her vivacious charm and beauty. But t...

  • Francesca

    Sylvia Andrew

    HER ONLY TEMPTATION! Francesca Shelwood is mortified when Marcus Carne reappears in her life -- he stole the most magical, illicit kisses from the young, innocent Francesca! And she swore never to forgive him after being punished for her "want...

  • Golden Dreams

    Rebecca Sinclair

    For the past six years, the residents of Nowhere, California have tolerated Lucy Hubbard as their self-appointed "lawwoman. " She stepped into her father's shoes with duty and determination--ignoring the skeptical whispers of the townsfolk. But these...

  • The Inheritance

    Antoinette Wrighton

    An orphan since the age of five, eighteen-year-old Iliani has led a sheltered life at Lourds Keep, under the guardianship of her father's old friend Edouard. Iliani sees her future in her marriage to Edouard's sun, certain it would he her father's wi...

  • Mary

    Theresa Michaels

    The survivor of a bitter marriage, widow Mary Inlow stepped gently through life, quietly burying her dreams of true love and children along the way. Until a fierce stranger holding a bloodied child appeared on her doorstep, demanding entry into her w...

  • The Mermaid's Song

    Marianne Willman

    THE BARGAIN Falsely accused in a terrible crime and desperate to flee England, young Flora O'Donnell strikes a desperate deal with mysterious and aloof Blaise Cheney. She will go to France - his wife in name only - to usher his ward, Johanna, into...

  • Morning Song

    Kimberly Cates

    Perhaps it's the Irish in her: Hannah Gray is as headstrong as she is sensible, as bold as she is willful. Having rescued her nephew, Pip, from an uncertain fate, she is fleeing with him as far and as fast as she can -- until she finds herself i...

  • My Darling Kate

    Elizabeth Graham

    A MAN IN LOVE... On the shores of the Chesapeake, Nicholas Talbot scans the faces of the disembarking passengers for his beloved Alyssa, the beauty who sailed from England to Maryland Colony to be his bride and mistress of his plantation. But to his...

  • My Outlaw

    Rachel Davis

    A REBELLIOUS YOUNG WOMAN ON THE OUTLAW TRAIL... THE MYSTERIOUS BANDIT WHO SAVES HER LIFE... It seemed like the perfect plan--to take from the rich to give to the poor. Until one dark night Mary Carolyn Ross finds herself aboard the private car of...

  • No Other Love

    Shannon Drake

    Their fates first collide in the shadow of the Black Hills -- when Sabrina Connor, fleeing her stepfather's cruel tyranny, is tempted by the sweeter captivity of Sloan Trelawny's arms. Their lives entwine again in the Scottish highlands a world away ...

  • Nothing But Velvet

    Kat Martin

    FROM THE DEPTHS OF AN ENGLISH FOREST TO GLITTERING BALLROOMS TO THE SCAFFOLD'S DARK SHADOW, RIDE THE PATH OF TEMPTATION... Lovely Velvet Moran has renounced all thoughts of love. To save her family from ruin, she will wed the hard-faced Duke of Ca...

  • One White Rose

    Julie Garwood

    Douglas Clayborne will never turn his back on anyone in need, and everyone in Blue Belle knows it. Time and again, his intolerance of cruelty of any kind has made him a champion of the defenseless ... but his quiet strength faces its ultimate battle ...

  • Purity

    Elaine Barbieri

    Purity, Honesty, Chastity -- They were all admirable traits, but when they came in the form of three headstrong, spirited, sinfully lovely sisters, they were... Dangerous Virtues From the moment Purity laid eyes on the stranger's magnificent b...

  • Runaway Bride

    Pamela Caldwell

    Zoe Smith can't run far enough away from her ruthless, power-hungry husband -- and the outrageous murder charge that's hanging over her head. So she flees west...and ends up in a bawdy boom town in the wild and woolly New Mexico territory. Wi...

  • Sheer Chance

    Suzanne Goodwin

    Avril Brett has opted out of the sexual revolution and settled into a loveless marriage and a dead-end job. Dominated by her husband, who has been having affairs since six months into their marriage, when he is posted to St Vincent, she has a brief a...

  • The Silver Rose

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, Like the rose in the haunting tale of "Beauty and the Beast," a silver rose on a charm bracelet brings together a beautiful young woman and a battle-scarred lord.... In my story, Ariel Ravenspeare has been taught to loathe the earl o...

  • Storm Maiden

    Mary Gillgannon

    The passionate tale of an Irish beauty's search for love. AN EXQUISITE IRISH PRINCESS... Fiona of Dunsheauna, the beautiful daughter of an Irish chieftain, rebelled at the idea of wedding a man she despised. And, trapped in her father's dark, ...

  • Summer Fancy

    Anne Avery

    She's plain... unforgettable... Anything but a typical female, Miss Sophronia Carter is as tall as a beanpole, fiercely independent, and the last woman in Rocky Ford, Colorado, to throw herself at a man. Tumbling down the church steps and landing ...

  • The Sunflower Girl

    Sara Hylton

    In 1894, Marie Clair lives a the quiet life of a fifteen-year-old girl, until she begins an affair with Andrew Martindale, the second son of an earl, who leaves her without a backward glance, not knowing she is carrying his baby....

  • Tempting Kate

    Deborah Simmons

    A MEETING AT GUNPOINT A fitting start for such a dangerous attraction, thought Grayson Westcott, the Marquis of Wroth. And though he'd always prided himself on his infamous self-control, Kate Courtland's hoydenish charms had shattered his defenses...

  • Texas Silver

    Holly Harte

    Revered as a great healer, part-Apache Karina Valdez is tormented by visions of great danger to her people and drawn to Rafe Tucker, the dashing stranger who asks for her help to find a hoard of lost gold hidden in the caves of Devil Mountain. Th...

  • Two Texas Hearts

    Jodi Thomas

    Kora Adams did not believe in curses, but she had known nothing but bad luck all her life. Then, one night, there was a knock on her door. It was a handsome but solemn stranger with a story to tell. Winter McQuillen had inherited a sprawling Te...

  • Untamed Angel

    Elaine Fox

    With a name that belied his true nature, Joshua Angell was born for deception. So when sophisticated and proper Ava Moreland first laid eyes on the sexy drifter in a desolate Missouri jail, she knew he was the one to save her sister from a ruined re...

  • Whistle Stop

    Lisa Higdon

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home -- and where true love is always right around the corner... Mayor Katherine McBride just had to find a new marsha...

  • WildWood

    Lynna Banning

    In Wildwood Valley, Trouble Wore a Badge enticingly pinned to Sheriff Ben Kearney's broad, muscular wall of a chest --- and Jessamyn Whittaker was determined to find a way around it. But how could she, when just looking at the man put her at a los...

  • '48

    James Herbert

    '48 by international bestseller and Master of Horror, James Herbert, explores a horrifying alternative end to the Second World War.In 1945, Hitler unleashed the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance.Those who died at once were the luck...

  • Asylum

    John Saul

    John Saul, master of psychological and supernatural suspense, has created a terrifying serial thriller set in the New England town of Blackstone. From the old Asylum, an insidious evil has descended upon unsuspecting souls who fall within its looming...

  • Before She Wakes

    T.J. Bradstreet

    A teenage girl is happy for her aunt, who is dating Dave, a man who just might be the "one," but when strange things begin to happen to her aunt and then to herself, she becomes convinced that there is more to Dave than meets the eye. Original....

  • The Beginning

    R.L. Stine

    Hope couldn’t wait to get to college. She was going to share a dorm room with her three best friends. Even better, her boyfriend, Darryl, would be living on the boys’ floor downstairs. Fear Hall was going to be a blast…until things take a terri...

  • Blowtorch@Psycho.Com

    Sherry Shahan

  • Field of Screams

    P. MacFearson

    Buddy Sanders has been zapped fifty years back in time -- to take over the body of Shadyside’s greatest baseball player ever. But Buddy has a problem: He knows everyone on his team dies in a horrible accident after the championship game.If Buddy ca...

  • Gimme Back My Brain

    M.T. Coffin

    Max offers to help two odd scientists who want to clone his brain, but after the procedure, his brain is transferred to a robot's body, and Max, now trapped inside a robot's body, must find a way to get his brain back into his human body. Original....

  • Midnight Diary

    R.L. Stine

    Collects favorite quotes form some of the spookiest Fear Street books and invites readers to record their strangest and scariest experiences, in a diary that includes a dream dictionary, fortune-telling activities, and quizzes. Original....

  • Necroscope: Resurgence: The Lost Years: Volume Two

    Brian Lumley

    Resurgence, the second book in horror author Brian Lumley's bestselling Necroscope series, Necroscope: The Lost Years Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, and Earth's greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife ...

  • The Thing in the Closet

    Christopher Pike

    When a terrible monster sneaks out of a closet and snatches one of their companions, Adam and his friends become terrified of going to bed and turning out their lights and begin surreptitiously locking their closet doors. Original....

  • Tuck Me in Mummy

    Fred E. Katz

  • Twins

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Two girls... one life. Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, exactly alike in every way. Mirror images. Two halves of one whole. Or so it appears. Until they are separated, leaving Mary Lee lost and alone. And Madrigal more beautiful...

  • House of the Vestals

    Steven Saylor

    ANCIENT HISTORY HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A MYSTERY... It is Ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Stalking about the city's twisting trails looking for clues and fording bodies, Gordianus has had his share of misadvent...

  • No Remorse

    James D. Brewer

    Masey Baldridge knew drunks, and he knew that Stuart Van Geer was not drunk. He also had serious doubts about the man's guilt. All he could be certain of was that Van Geer had confessed to the murder of his own father and that the widow was willing t...

  • Seeing a Large Cat

    Elizabeth Peters

    The year is 1903. The place is Cairo. And preparing to tackle an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings, the intrepid Amelia Peabody dreams of a large cat, an Egyptian sign of good luck. In fact, an ominous message warning "Stay away from tomb...

  • Suffer Little Children

    Peter Tremayne

    In the Year of Our Lord 665, in the village of Muman, the Venerable Dacan, a beloved religious scholar, has been found brutally murdered. His friend, the impetuous ruler of a neighboring Irish kingdom, vows merciless revenge.... Sister Fidelma has...

  • Finder's Bane

    Kate Novak; Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The fate of one god hinges on the death of another -- and the bravery of a rag-tag band of adventurers -- in this classic Harpers novelWhen Joel became a priest of the new god Finder, he knew it meant forfeiting the honor and security of his position...

  • Apaches

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. Legends of the NYPD, they were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more. Now they are apaches, a renegade unit working on their own--reunited to bring down the most vicious cri...

  • Bandido Caballero

    Jack Ballas

    Once a rebel spy, Tom Fallon was spared the firing squad when the President of the United States needed his help. Now, he's a hired gun for the government, stealing shipments of gold from the French to help the cause of Benito Juarez in Mexico. H...

  • Bonner's Stallion

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    Bonner faces losing his mistress, his son, and his mountain ranch to a rich and powerful enemy, until the feared and hated rogue stallion, El Diablo Rojo, turns up once again and convinces Bonner he can win. Original....

  • The Broken Land

    Richard Perry

  • Bushwhackers

    B.J. Lanagan

    After their parents are murdered by a band of marauding Yankees, Win and Joe Coulter join William Quantrill and his gang of bloodthirsty raiders to seek revenge on the attackers....

  • Flintlock Trail

    John Legg

    Jacques Maxwell, the illegitimate son of a slave owner and one of his slaves, runs away, ends up fighting in the war of 1812, and then signs on with the Missouri Fur Company, a decision that leads to many more adventures on the western frontier. Orig...

  • Johnny Nelson

    Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence Edward Mulford

    Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson, two fun-loving, hard-fighting cowboys from the legendary Bar-20 ranch, are back in this classic saga of western adventure by Clarence E. Mulford.Former Bar-20 cowboy Johnny Nelson, the protégé of Hopalong Cassidy...

  • Ladies of the Goldfield Stock Exchange

    Sybil Downing

    Presents the story of three extraordinary women determined to claim their fortunes and independence by setting up their own stock exchange, a move that leaves its mark on the wild, final days of the Gold Rush era. Reprint....

  • Legbreakers and Heartbreakers

    J.R. Roberts

    Laid up with a broken leg in the tiny town of Tucumcari, New Mexico, Clint Adams is asked by the mayor to make a celebrity appearance at a ribbon-cutting event, becomes the target of a gunfighter out to make his reputation, and attracts the attention...

  • Longarm and the Double-Barrel Blowout

    Tabor Evans

    While enjoying a much-needed vacation, Longarm is forced to come to the aid of an old friend being hunted for a fortune in Spanish gold and to rescue a lovely young lady kidnapped by one of the West's most disreputable and disgusting outlaws. Origina...

  • Mississippi Mayhem

    David Thompson

    The fourth installment in the adventures of Davy Crockett follows the intrepid mountain man and his faithful friend, Flavius, on a canoe trip down the river, straight into the clutches of robbers and hostile Native American tribes. Original....

  • Sioux War Cry

    Jon Sharpe

  • Slocum's Inheritance

    Jake Logan

    Heading to St. Louis to collect an inheritance from a long-lost uncle, Slocum finds himself in deep trouble when he is forced to kill a man in self-defense, an action that makes him the target of the dead man's vengeful family. Original....

  • Texas Lily

    Elizabeth Fackler

    Lily Cassidy’s childhood happiness is shattered when her father is murdered by political opponents. Powerless to act against her father’s killer, she consents to a loveless marriage with Emmett Moss in exchange for his promise of vengeance. What ...

  • Texas Teamwork

    J.T. Edson

    Brad Counter, great grandson of Mark Counter from Ole Devil Hardon's outfit, carries on the family legacy as a deputy sheriff in the Lone Star State. He and his partner, Deputy Alice Fayde, are part of a team investigating the near-fatal shooting of ...

  • After Hannibal

    Barry Unsworth

    Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed.Unsworth's contempora...

  • Air Force One

    Andrew W. Marlowe

    AIR FORCE ONE  

    It is called the flying White House, the most tightly guarded airborne fortress in the world . . . until now.                      Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet above the ear...

  • American Tragedy

    Lawrence Schiller

    The riveting account of the O.J. Simpson murder trial is told in the uncensored words of Simpson's closest confidants and attorneys. American Tragedy reveals the answers to many of he case's unexplained questions for the first time. What happened ...

  • The Andalite's Gift

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is...

  • The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

    S.T. Joshi

    Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing -- including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, inc...

  • Ant Plays Bear

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    In this delightful follow-up to My Brother, Ant, Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window. These enchanting stories capture the relationship between Ant and his brother with warmth...

  • Athene

    Ann Shearer

    From the moment Athene sprang full-grown from her father Zeus's head, a new image of the feminine was born to Western consciousness. Starting from a penetrating analysis of the goddess's mythologies and beginnings, Ann Shearer examines how mainstream...

  • Baby-Sitters Club in the USA

    Ann M. Martin

    From Stoneybrook to Palo City, it's 3,000 miles of fun, friends, and adventure! It's BSC road trip time! Two RVs are parked in front of Claudia Kishi's house. Dawn's dad, Mr. Schafer, will drive one. Watson Brewer, Kristy's stepdad, will pilot the...

  • Barney's Adventure Bus

    Scholastic Inc.

    Hop aboard and get ready for the ride of your life as bus driver Barney takes the whole gang to some of their favorite imaginary destinations. First stop, a castle just for Brett where he can rule in the land of make believe. Then, it's back on the b...

  • Batbaby

    Robert M. Quackenbush

    On his first solo flight, Batbaby gets caught in a rainstorm, is blown into Squirrel's tree, and gets into all sorts of trouble before he finally falls asleep. In the morning Batbaby returns home where he must go to bed again! With a sweet surprise e...

  • Beany and the Magic Crystal

    Susan Wojciechowski

  • Before Women Had Wings

    Connie May Fowler

    In 1965 Bird, christened Avocet, aged six, is living with her family in a Florida citrus grove. Daddy and Mama, who run a general store, fight frequently and drink too much; Bird and her older sister Phoebe are beaten equally frequently. Daddy is eve...

  • The Blue Devils of Nada

    Albert Murray

    Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in ...

  • Boats

    Jan Pienkowski