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New Books List: 314 titles

  • No Marks for Trying

    Stella Allan

    'A clever and polished writer' - OXFORD TIMES Whilst discussing holiday plans, Diana Holt's husband, Lewis, had suggested they go to Bahia Dorado in Spain. He said he had been there twenty years ago with his first wife, Klara, and was sure Diana wo...

  • North Country Nights

    Penny Allison

    EVERYBODY IN MICHIGAN WAS LOSING THEIR JOBS But Christie had no idea that the recession had caused the breakdown of her marriage. Until she accidentally ran into Raif at their cabin in northern Michigan, she had no idea that the crazy hours h...

  • Marmaduke Large and Loveable

    Brad Anderson

  • Death in a High Latitude

    J.R.L. Anderson / John R.L. Anderson

    When the deputy chairman of a world-leading oil company gets kidnapped in Hamburg, Peter Blair is urgently called in to lead the rescue mission.The captured Dr Braunschweig is a wealthy and powerful man, and a sizeable ransom demand seems certain. So...

  • Hoka!

    Poul Anderson

  • Cooks and Bakers

    Robert A. Anderson

  • Head Over Heels

    Nicola Andrews

    Susan Reed is at the end of her rope -- literally dangling from a sheer cliff -- when she's lifted into the arms of a massively powerful, thrillingly handsome mountaineer. Master climber Jack Cameron tackles the Alps with awe-inspiring strength a...

  • Mercenary

    Piers Anthony

    SCOURGE OF THE ECLIPTIC He was driven by violent injustice from his home moon of Callisto--and set forth to claim the epic destiny that would blaze across worlds and time. He saw his family destroyed, his sister carried off into sexual slavery, hi...

  • Sandcastle Dreams

    Robyn Anzelon

    HER CLEVER DECEPTION CLOUDED THEIR LOVE Lindsay Ashton had long ago given up believing in Prince Charmings and happily ever afters. But if there was one man who could convince her otherwise it was Mark Cavanaugh. Of all men. The handsome, succe...

  • A Wave

    John Ashbery

  • The Impetuous Heiress

    Jane Ashford

    LESSONS FOR A LORD The moment that Lady Alicia Alston first encountered Ian Cairnyllan, she could see that this imperious lord from the wilds of Scotland had a great deal to learn. He clearly did not appreciate that Alicia was a most sought-aft...

  • When Love Shines Through

    June Masters Bacher

  • Legacy

    Jeanette Baker

    When a distant relative bequeaths a Scottish castle to Christina Murray, the beautiful college professor is off to a distant land to claim her inheritance. It is there that she meets Ian Douglas, a breathtakingly handsome man who may hold the key to ...

  • Sweet Torment

    Elaine Barbieri

    PASSIONATE RAGE Ravishing Morgana Pierce had never met anyone as arrogant as dark-haired Devon Howard. She could see from the infuriating gleam in his eye that he thought she had deliberately mistaken his cabin for hers. During the long, tortuous ...

  • Memories That Linger

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    SWEET MEMORIES OF DESIRE.... Two people met on a Galveston beach and followed their passion into love. But the real world intruded, and that love was left only in memory. Two years later, Meryl Stevens and Reese Corbett met again, and this meet...

  • Switch

    William Bayer

    When a prim and proper teacher from New York's Upper East Side and a prostitute across town are decapitated, and their heads switched, Detective Frank Janek must become as coldly creative as the killer he is stalking...

  • Storm Over the Everglades

    Patti Beckman

    Reluctantly, Lindi MacTavish agreed to give up her career in New York to take over her family's small weekly newspaper in Florida. The decision was difficult, and the Clarion's managing editor, the brooding, mysterious Travis Machado, didn...

  • Lone Ranger

    Tom Beecham

  • From the Flames

    Kathryn Belmont

    Every day had been much like another for Marie Russo. Overwhelmed by grief after her fireman husband was killed, she had simply stopped caring. But one day the pale face she didn't recognize in the mirror convinced her it was time to start a new life...

  • When I Was Otherwise

    Stephen Benatar

    Two women looking back over fifty years: one full of regret, the other not admitting to mistakes and continuing to be fiercely positive. Which approach, in the end, is likely to prove more satisfying—both for Daisy herself and for those who liv...

  • Occasion of Sin

    Rachel Billington

    Beautiful, decisive, and Catholic, Laura Knight is perfectly happy and secure with her husband and seven-year-old son, until she falls in love with a younger man and is ensnared by sexual euphoria and guilt...

  • That Champagne Feeling

    Claudia Bishop (1)

    From the first, Mark and Emma sensed something vibrant and intoxicating between them. Now, newly married, their careers as child psychiatrists continue to flourish while their love deepens. At work Emma's a maverick, but at home Mark curbs her outrag...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Pike Bishop

    For Cord Diamondback, the luck of the draw is the luck of the damned... JOKERS ARE WILD For some people, poker is more than a game. It's a business... a deadly business. On a heavy New Mexico night, a card is played, wagers are made, fortunes a...

  • Android Invasion

    Christopher Black

  • Crystal Destiny

    Christina Blair

    QUEST OF HOPE Lydia Westcott yearned to escape her stifling Boston home. She dreamed of traveling West, to the high, hidden valley in the Rocky Mountains her father had claimed for her mother before they died. She knew she belonged on the banks...

  • Dr. Beautiful

    Christina Blake

    Beautiful Margo St. Henry was convinced that the tiny wrinkles on her face were responsible for her failing marriage, but her choice of plastic surgeon, the reputable but drug-addicted Dr. Adam Edrose, has disasterous results...

  • No Questions Asked

    Oliver Bleeck

    With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book.

    Philip St. Ives has no love for New York’s drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to le...

  • Tracings on a Window

    Georgia Bockoven

    A woman never forgets her first lover With years of trying, Danielle Hartman had managed to erase Steve Maddox from her thoughts. That was by day. How often by night she still lay awake missing him -- the warmth and comfort of his body, the searing ...

  • Peterkin's Wet Walk

    Emilie Boon

  • Warlord

    Malcolm Bosse

  • Settling the Score

    Norma Brader

    To the business world she was "The Iron Lady," the ex-model who had parlayed her beauty and brains into a successful agency, Class Act. Alicia Bradley was a woman who knew what she wanted -- until Blake Fielding strode into her life and refused to b...

  • Alamo Tree

    Ernest Brawley

  • Showdown and Other Stories

    Michael Brondoli

  • Reading for the Plot

    Peter Brooks

    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life....

  • The End of the World News

    Anthony Burgess

    A futuristic account of the world's end is composed of three narrative strands presented as if viewed simultaneously, featuring historical and fictional figures, and shifting from New York, to Vienna, to outer space...

  • Alien Debt

    F.M. Busby

    Bantam Books, 1984. Paperback original. 3rd book in the 4-volume Hulzein series of space opera novels. Other titles in the series are: [1] Star Rebel (1984); [2] Rebel's Quest (1985); and [4] Rebels' Seed (1986)....

  • Clay's Ark

    Octavia E. Butler

    EARTH'S FIRST SPACESHIP HAS RETURNED... WITH THE DEATH OF THE ENTIRE PLANET AS ITS CARGO The one crew member left alive is infected with a terrifying alien plague--and, fight it as he may, he is compelled by that plague to go out and infect others...

  • The Skyscraper

    Robert Byrne

  • Autumntide

    Drusilla Campbell

    Autumntide -- It was the season when young girls from County Mayo came down to the shore, when bonfires blazed and maidens tempted the Na Buctogai that lived in the pounding waves. A season when twins were born to Mary and Liam Malloy -- children bo...

  • The Thin Woman

    Dorothy Cannell

    Ellie Simons longs to be thin -- and married. But with her single-minded passion for eclairs and clotted cream, her prospects on both counts seem dim. That's why the summons to attend a family reunion at the old ancestral home is about as welcome as ...

  • They're Coming

    Paul Carell

  • Universe Fourteen

    Terry Carr

  • Down to a Sunless Sea

    Lin Carter

  • Night of the Warheads

    Nick Carter

  • Now and Again

    Joan Cassity

    IN PURSUIT OF LOVE Shawn McCullough was determined that her dealings with the charming Andrew Bellows would remain strictly business. His reputation with women was almost as legendary as his rise to the top of the real estate world. Andrew Bell...

  • Star Attraction

    Melanie Catley

    "More, more! We want more!" The women were going wild! What had happened? In her absence, Paradigm -- Lorraine Howeth's elegant supper club -- had become a male strip joint! And there was no denying that her partner had created an incredible success...

  • Demons of the Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    Quest For The Dark Baron In Husaquahr the world of magic beyond the Sea of Dreams, the battle had been won and all seemed peaceful. But Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master sorcerer, knew better. Far to the south on the River of Dancing Gods, the Dar...

  • The Last Amazon

    A. Bertram Chandler

    Originally, Sparta was an all-male planet - an all-male population with everything that implies: babies - male babies only - produced by the so-called Birth Machine from an almost unending supply of fertilized ova brought by Sparta's founding fath...

  • Sword Master

    David Charney

    Feudal Japan's finest swordsman, Tadamori-no-Yoshi, finds himself caught between factions competing for control of twelfth-century Japan, becomes the target of the vengeful Taira, the clan of Chikara, and seeks safety with a traveling Noh theater...

  • Saint Overboard

    Leslie Charteris

    Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones’s locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?

    ...

  • Mission of Gravity

    Hal Clement

    For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those str...

  • Blood on the Moon

    Barney Cohen

    Trying to solve the first lunar mass murder, Asher Bockhorn and Pekkar Foskollio discover clues leading to a heretical runaway from the Lunar Mormon society, a leftwing conspiracy, a bizzare sex cult, blackmail, and the ultimate computer crime...

  • Don't Fence Me In

    Brenda Cole

    Amy was furious! A horrendous idea that’s what it was! A new stepfather! Life on an out-of-the-way ranch! An unknown stepsister, probably a drip! Demeaning chores! And now this totally tiresome boy who did nothing but fight with her! As soon as pos...

  • Brief Enchantment

    Susanna Collins

    He was a seventeenth-century rogue, a plotter of intrigues, a seducer of women, and a literary luminary -- and Sandy O'Sullivan is half in love with him. Until she confronts his modern-day descendant, Antoine de Lusignan, a marquis and a milliona...

  • Not For Love

    Hila Colman

  • The Legend

    Nicholas Conde

    When architect Louisa Palmer embarks on a project to turn a sacred Indian site into a housing development, a series of accidents, grisly deaths, and the discovery of the key to a vast treasure lead her into a confrontation with a terrifying supernatu...

  • Savage Fire

    Phoebe Conn

    DO NOT KEEP ME WAITING TONIGHT demanded handsome Rising Eagle to the innocent blonde beauty who had saved his life. And though Elizabeth knew it was wrong to meet the powerful Seneca warrior she came to him when the sky darkened and let him teach her...

  • Please Say Yes

    Alice O. Crawford

    Marley couldn't be happier when shy, handsome Jeff finally asks her out. But disaster strikes when the Riverport High basketball team is left a large sum of money. The boy's team insists the money was meant for them alone; the girls' team thinks that...

  • The Case of the Angry Actress

    E.V. Cunningham

    Film producer Al Greenberg has been murdered-the first in a series of violent deaths perpetrated by a killer calling herself "Samantha." Eleven years earlier, a young, starry-eyed actress with the same name had been raped by half a dozen men on a Hol...

  • Sullivan's Revenge

    John Cutter

  • Love's Joy, Love's Pain

    Saralyn Daly

  • Operation Black Sea

    W.X. Davies

  • The Allure Book

    Julie Davis

  • Sometimes a Lady

    Jocelyn Day

    Coolly poised tax accountant Martine Dahl is, above all, a lady. But self-assured entrepreneur Rade Hardin seems determined to prove otherwise. Daring her to reveal the explosive sensuality he senses beneath her aloof exterior, Rade teases her with i...

  • The Riddle of the Wren

    Charles de Lint

    Inside the world of dreams Minda Sealy is afraid to go to sleep, for when she does she is trapped inside the same terrible, dark nightmare. Over and over it happens, until she is ragged and raw. Then, one night, she dreams she is somewhere else --...

  • Song of the Bird

    Anthony De Mello

  • Shadow of the Beast

    Gerald De Pego

  • Deadline

    Thomas B. Dewey

    Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk's violent hostility. #13 in the Mac detective series! "Mac is one of our best private eye...

  • The Forgetful Lady

    Jacqueline Diamond

    A Tease and a Heartless Flirt! That was Lord Meridan's dreadful estimate of Lady Elizabeth Fairchild. And it was true that during her come-out she had acted the hoyden in her desperation to please her rather uncaring mother. Then after a na...

  • All She Wants

    Suzanne Diamond

    THEIRS WAS A LOVE TOO PERFECT TO REMAIN JUST A MEMORY... THE SONG WAS "GREEN EYES" ...and Marta Resnick's eyes were green and daring as she stepped up on the stage at the Hillcrest high school dance to sing with Vince Fanetti's band. From tha...

  • Hooligans

    William Diehl

    Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex...

  • Big and Little, Same and Different

    Disney Book Group

  • Eventide

    Margaret Dobson

    After eight long years Rachel Quinn couldn't wait for her husband to resign his commission in the navy and come home to Norfolk, Virginia, where she'd worked so long and hard to maintain their home. But strong, stubborn Adam showed no sign...

  • Rebecca's Pride

    Donald McNutt Douglas

  • The Man Next Door

    Kathleen Downes

    The cabin walls were paper-thin, and painter Jessica Winslow couldn't help overhearing the angry fight going on next door. Suddenly a door slammed, and a car raced away into the night, stranding the man who'd lost the argument. It seemed on...

  • First You Fight

    D.B. Drumm

  • An Equal Opportunity Death

    Susan Dunlap

    When the proprietor of a local waterfront bar is murdered, meter reader Vejay Haskell, who had called in sick that day, learns that she is the chief suspect, and must discover the truth about the killing. Reissue....

  • Magic or Not?

    Edward Eager

    When is magic not magic? Laura is a girl who goes out of her way to find adventure. So when her family moves to a house with a well in the yard -- a wishing well, according to Lydia, Laura's opinionated, horse-mad, outrageous new neighbor -- Laura...

  • Prize Meets Murder

    R.T. Edwards

  • Pig Jokes and Puzzles

    Lisa Eisenberg

  • The Sword of Allah

    Richard Elliott

  • A Kiss for Good Luck

    Carol Ellis

    EVERY LOVE STORY HAS TWO SIDES ... AND HERE'S THE GIRL'S SIDE TESS'S STORY... Charlie and I were two different people. If I loved him, and I thought I did, I'd let him be who he was. If I loved him, I'd leave well enough alone. But Tess can't leav...

  • Lone Star and the Texas Gambler

    Wesley Ellis

    PLAYING FOR KEEPS! The Starbuck empire is in deep trouble. The raids and plunder are becoming routine. Rumors are being spread that Jessie is dead and her entire fortune is up for grabs. Who is behind it all? The notorious gambler Jessie loves but c...

  • Lone Star and the Railroad War

    Wesley Ellis

    HELL-RAISING HOODWINKERS ARE WORKING ON THE RAILROAD! The South Sierra Railway Company wants Hidden Valley, and if money won’t buy it, maybe arson, hired killers or dynamite will. Crooked county officials and sweet-talking dirty dealers run a t...

  • Lone Star 12

    Wesley Ellis

    In a race across the desert, Jessie and Ki search for a ciy of untold wealth in the twelfth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -...

  • Sugartown

    Loren D. Estleman

    Spring has come to Detroit''s Sugartown enclave, and Amos Walker would like to feel kindly toward the human race. Unfortunately, his first case of the new season immediately leads him into trouble among the Polish settlers of neighboring Hamtramck...

  • The Kremlin Connection

    Jonathan Evans

  • Business After Hours

    Laurel Evans

    PLEASURE BEFORE BUSINESS Rashly, Nina Sterling-Moss went to dinner with the rugged stranger and succumbed to his devastating charm before learning that Abe Prescott, literary agent, was the very man she'd been warned to avoid! A notorious mal...

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Bounty

    Tabor Evans

    LONGARM AND LONE STAR: THE LEGEND GROWS It was the biggest "manhunt" Texas had ever seen. Jessie Starbuck was wanted for robbery and murder, dead or alive, with a reward large enough to draw not only every lawman, but every gunslinging outlaw i...

  • Floaters

    Tish O'Dowd Ezekiel

  • Passion's Vixen

    Carol Finch

    MOUNTAIN TREASURE Melissa had made up her mind: the mountains were where she belonged and that's where she would stay. She never imaged that her father would pay someone to find her or that her captor would be the awesome woodsman Zack Beaugene...

  • A Weekend for Love

    Glenna Finley

    A marriage of convenience plunges a beautiful young woman into mysterious danger...and unexpected love... Heart's Discovery When the caretakers were suddenly called away from the charming Victorian inn Kim Cosgrove had inherited, she return...

  • The Ash Staff

    Paul R. Fisher

  • The Hawks of Fellheath

    Paul R. Fisher

  • Grover Square

    Nancy Fitzgerald

  • Second Sight

    Rebecca Flanders

    She gave him two gifts: her love and second sight Normally, Jennifer Kiel was the head librarian in the town of Southworth, Massachusetts, but on that bright autumn day Jennifer had donned cape and veil, transforming herself into Madame Voltaire, ...

  • Riders of the Sidhe

    Kenneth C. Flint

    Out of the mists the Fomor came to enslave the isle of Eire, a dread race of twisted men ruled by an inhuman lord: Balor of the Evil Eye. But a champion came from out of the sea, a youth called Lugh, seeking his destiny, sent to Eire by the seagod Ma...

  • The Mystery of the Highland Crest

    Louise Munro Foley

  • The Last Starfighter

    Alan Dean Foster

    Alex Rogan, a teenager with big dreams and a unique talent, who lives in a small town trailer park, finds himself drafted by the Starfighter Command to undertake a critical mission, to save the universe...

  • The Boys on the Rock

    John Fox

    Written with uncanny precision and wild humor, this is the story of Billy Connors, high school student in the Bronx, member of the swim team, and all-around regular guy, who in his sixteenth year has to face the fact that he's a little different f...

  • Country Pleasures

    Lauren Fox

    Gallery owner Carly Meadows drives upstate to collect art -- not artists. Nonetheless, she discovers rugged Brad Weston -- sculptor and carver of incredible canoes -- who then refuses to become her latest gallery "find." Even as he responds t...

  • Asia Rip

    George Foy

  • Night Talks

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • To Catch the Wind

    Margaret Gayle

    HE HURT HER ONCE -- HE COULD HURT HER AGAIN Seven years ago, Barth Tramande had sailed into Bay Point like a Viking hero and conquered Miel McCrae's heart. But he didn't want it -- not then. Determined to forget, Miel had abandoned her ...

  • Faraway Loves

    Jan Gelman

  • Wyatt and the Moresby Legacy

    David Gethin

  • Gremlins

    George Gipe

  • Summer Camp

    Judy Gitenstein

    YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER! It's your first summer away at camp, and you're having a great time. One day you're paddling down a river in a canoe when suddenly you come to some roaring rapids. You lose control of the canoe -- and find ...

  • Boys and Girls Together

    William Goldman

    William Goldman is famous for his Academy Award-winning screenplays, infamous for the thriller that did for dentists what Psycho did for showers, beloved for his hilarious "hot fairy-tale," and notorious for his candid behind-the-scenes Hol...

  • Too Much Too Soon

    Eileen Goudge

    Four friends on the brink of graduation -- and adulthood ... It's senior year at California's Glenwood High for sexy Kit McCoy, athletic Alex Enomoto, brainy Elaine Gregory, and beautiful Lori Woodhouse. It is a time for discovery -- and for falli...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Liz Grady

    Arriving at her lighthouse retreat on sleepy Block Island, Kate Lonergan is floored to find herself facing a gloriously virile, nearly nude roommate. Matt Kincade, high-powered contractor, defies all her attempts to evict him. Resenting Matt's...

  • Night Songs

    Charles L. Grant

    SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT THEY ARE SINGING SONGS OF DEATH… Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, one abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven’s End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life. But instead of peace, he is hurled ...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Jeanne Grant

    A whirlwind courtship, an impulsive marriage -- shy, cautious Susan would never have dreamed herself capable of such madness. But she couldn't resist "Viking" Griff Anderson's infectious laughter...or his heart-stopping caresses. It w...

  • Golden Illusion

    Ginna Gray

    When Claire Andrews, the elegantly beautiful widow on one senator and daughter of another, agreed to run for her husband's vacant senate seat, she had no intention of being the figurehead her party--and Matt Drummond--expected. If the newspaper heir ...

  • The Pandora Stone

    William Greenleaf

  • Maverick Queen

    Zane Grey

  • One Very Hot Day

    David Halberstam

  • The Homecoming

    Phyllis Halldorson

    After two long years away from the town and the family that were so dear to her, Dianna Blythe was back in Arrowhead. She had been lured there by the failing health of her father, but once she'd encountered Dr. Marcus Cade, she wondered if she co...

  • Shooting Star

    Lucy Hamilton

    SHOOTING STAR... That was the only way to describe the impact actor James Reid had on Cassie Mills' life. She was a chief obstetrics resident, well on her way to qualifying as a full-fledged doctor, when James showed up to research his latest ro...

  • Everyday Story: Norwegian Women's Fiction

    Katherine Hanson

  • San Juan Shootout

    J.D. Hardin

    Bullets are flying over San Juan silver! Hired to protect an eccentric inventor from Ute Indians, money-hungry desperadoes, and his own passion for pleasure, Doc and Raider come to the San Juan Silver Mines--the riches and most dangerous in the West....

  • The Outrider

    Richard Harding

  • Fireworks

    Elaine Harper

  • This Cherished Dream

    Barbara Harrison

    "It's a man's world," young Mary Kilburne had been told, "and a woman could only find a place in it." And find a place she did! Making her way to America's golden shores with nothing except a few pennies and her pride, ...

  • A Talent for Trouble

    Johnny Hart

  • Hurricane Sweep

    Samantha Harte

    Three generations of women pursue life and love through the turbulence of 19th century America in this sweeping historical romance. Florie is a delicate Southern belle who must flee north to escape her family's cruelty, only to endure the torment of ...

  • Deadly Reunion

    Ralph Hayes

  • Blunt Darts

    Jeremiah Healy

    INNOCENCE DIES The boy had vanished. The lush Boston suburb didn't offer a clue, but 14-year-old Stephen Kinnington's old-money family did. When John Cuddy investigated he found skeletons in every closet: a mother's suicide that might not have bee...

  • Rakehell's Widow

    Sandra Heath

    LOVE'S BATTLEFIELD When Alabeth left London under a cloud of gossip as bride of notorious rake Robert Manvers, she thought never to return. But her beloved Robert was dead now, fallen in a duel encouraged by his supposed friend, Sir Piers Cast...

  • Miracles

    Marcy Heidish

  • Her Contrary Heart

    Lois T. Henderson

  • The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Grisly and atmospheric…[these] stories feature small worlds of animal amorality in which the sweet taste of revenge leaves no aftertaste of guilt." -- Publishers WeeklyNowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The...

  • Daughter of Liberty

    Johanna Hill

    "I AM THE LEGAL AND RIGHTFUL PUBLISHER OF THE BOSTON WORD, SIR. YOU WILL HAVE TO REFER YOUR COMPLAINTS TO ME ALONE. " Now Abigail Peabody knew the reason for Jeremy Blackburn's return from London. Vengeance. He believed as be had f...

  • The Proving Gun // The Yesterday Rider

    Ray Hogan

  • The Greatest Show on Earth

    Nancy Holder

    Melinda Franklin had sawdust in her veins, bright blue paint streaks in her blonde hair, and a dream that wouldn't die: to keep Franklin's an old-fashioned circus. When banker Evan Kessel arrived to review her loan application, he found her h...

  • A Death at St. Anselm's

    Isabelle Holland

    The grisly murder of wheelchair bound church treasurer, Dick Grism. His tight control on the holy purse strings had made him less than popular. The weapon was an invaluable bookend taken from the dead man's shelf. All the gruesome evidence points to ...

  • The Ghost in the Computer

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Working It Out

    Julia Howard

    For as long as she could remember, computers had been her all-consuming passion. As the owner of a successful computer company, software expert Lindsay Trent moved in a sophisticated, high-tech world -- a world that Kit Hawthorne, the daring world-cl...

  • Diamonds in the Sky

    Samantha Hughes

    London, Paris, New York -- the glamour run was the envy of every flight attendant, but Laurie Abbott was ready to fold up her wings and begin again. At thirty-eight, she was ready for a change -- and totally unprepared for David Warren, the dashing p...

  • Side By Side

    Martha Mason Humphreys

    Carrie had made up her mind that over the summer she would make friends with the right crowd; did all the right things; went to the right places; snagged the most eligible boyfriend. When the fall rolled around she would definitely have an okay senio...

  • Song of Surrender

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    FORBIDDEN MELODY... When Katy West had the unexpected opportunity of singing in David Lloyd's cantata, she was ecstatic. She had no idea that David would be conducting his own piece. An exacting and temperamental taskmaster, he openly criticiz...

  • The Second Saladin

    Stephen Hunter

    Once Paul Chardy had been among the Agency's best and brightest. Now he was a Cold War burnout, sick of the dirty tricks and dirtier lies. But the Agency needed Paul Chardy one more time -- and the Agency knew how to make sure he couldn't say no...

  • Is That You Mrs Pinkerton-Trunks?: And Other Stories from 'Get Up and Go'

    Shirley Isherwood

  • Jackson State of Emergency

    B. Jackson

    Fancy electronics, minimal characterization--in a heavy-on-the-hardware disaster novel. Something has gone wrong with the TV sets on the West Coast--they're blowing up--and Dr. Michael Zelman of the Pentagon's Branch D is called in to resolve the hor...

  • A Wish for Always

    Arlene James

    Tough choices... It was a time for decisions, and Roxanne Steele had already made one choice: She was going to stay with her father and Aunt Liz on the small Oklahoma ranch where she'd been raised. Tired of life in the fast lane, Roxanne was content...

  • Chance Meetings

    Vanessa James

    "All I need is a man -- a rich man." Caro's mad scheme shocked her cousin Marian Fox. But the bank was pressing for the sale of Trevelyans, the Cornish estate that had been in Caro's family for generations, and the auction was less...

  • Anarchy in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    An ex-soldier who rebuilt America after nuclear holocaust now faces a Russian invasion in this action-packed adventure from a USA Todayâ€"bestselling author.   In the aftermath of germ and nuclear warfare, of plague and pillage and bloody anarch...

  • King of Thieves

    Robert Jordan

  • Run To Gold

    Janet Joyce

    AN INDEPENDENT LIFE Kyna O'Brien was an independent woman and she liked it that way. It was a hard-won struggle, but she proved she could make it on her own. When Blade Maddox jogged by her with an appreciative glance one misty morning, her li...

  • American Blues

    Ward Just

  • The Fala Factor

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Hollywood PI Toby Peters looks for a kidnapped dog - with political connections

    If he is surprised to find Eleanor Roosevelt waiting for him in his dingy little office, Toby Peters does not show it. Although this is his first time working f...

  • Surprise Party

    William Katz

    His name is Marty Shaw. To the world he seems like any other successful New York executive. To his loving bride Samantha, he seems the perfect husband. But Marty leads a second, secret life. Today is November 19th, and Samantha has big plans for h...

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    Back cover text:
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