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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Horrible Harry and the Green Slime

    Suzy Kline

    With Harry in class, second grade is always full of surprises...horrible surprises! When Harry suggests that the class draw cobwebs to decorate the school, everyone loves the idea. But Harry has a secret plan... and his cobweb turns out to be the ...

  • Who's in the Box, Bobby?

    Pat Paris

  • Beyond Safe Boundaries

    Margaret Sacks

  • Giants of Elena

    Robyn Tallis

  • The Darkened Room

    Alex Owen

    A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums -- it's an explora...

  • Dogs on the Case

    Patricia Curtis

    Discusses dogs that are trained to use their scenting ability to locate drugs, explosives, missing persons, agricultural products, or other substances. Includes a directory of search-and-rescue dog organizations....

  • Andi's War

    Billi Rosen

  • Defy Not the Heart

    Johanna Lindsey

    A KIDNAPPER'S PROMISE Lady Reina de Champeney's cerulean eyes gazed with scorn as they fell upon the golden giant of a man before her. This was the knight Ranulf Fitz Hugh, her kidnapper, who was pledged to deliver her into the worst kind of bon...

  • Wee Color Wee Sing for Christmas

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Oh My, a Fly!

    Jan Pienkowski

  • I'll Take It

    Paul Rudnick

    They came. They saw. They came and took what they saw.

    The Esker sisters are shoppers. Loving, caring, driven, merciless shoppers. Ida never "passes a store without slipping in and buying something to give away." Pola, who only buys in bulk, w...

  • The Birth of a Grandfather

    May Sarton

    May Sarton’s 7th novel is about marriage, family, life’s cycles, and the regeneration of love Frances and Sprig Wyeth have come to the old Wyeth house in Maine for the summer. In a house filled with lively members of her husband’s extended fam...

  • A Summer of Horses

    Carol Fenner

  • Here's Pippa!

    Betty Boegehold

  • Nemesis

    Louise Cooper

    THE TOWER OF REGRETS You who sit at my side by the fire; you whose restless ghosts walk in the shadows of my dreams; you children yet unborn: If you would see your people live and prosper, then let these ancient stones lie in solitude. For this is...

  • Shadow Games

    Glen Cook

    After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the Lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exist only in legend ... t...

  • The Door in the Wall

    Marguerite de Angeli

    Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed in one stroke: He falls ill and loses the use of his ...

  • Codename: Electron

    Ned Bannister

    The Cadets make their way to the small town of Livingston, Kansas, to look into the disappearance of Cadet Matthias, and are captured by a Middle Eastern terrorist who plans to release deadly anti-matter...

  • Backboard Battle

    Kirk Marshall

    The first season games are easy wins for the Jefferson High Patriots. With Brian Davis, the tallest man on the team and their new star center, they can do no wrong. But when they start playing teams with height advantage, Brian begins losing on the r...

  • The Champions

    Paul Nichols

  • The Last Exile

    Charles Durham

    A towering saga about one man’s journey into the wild Canadian frontier of the eighteenth century -- and into the passions that war within us all

    A student in Paris, Gabriel Dublanche watched in horror while members of the forbidden Huguenot...

  • Big Bird Flies Alone

    Felice Haus

  • Grover's Summer Vacation

    Linda Hayward

  • Belonging

    Sally Cook

    Mandy felt like a fish out of water She'd always known she was adopted -- but the older she got, the more marked the differences became. So after very careful preparation she traced her real mother. Grant Livingstone, who found her in the g...

  • A Most Unusual Lady

    Janet Grace

    THERE are none so blind who will not see Miss Louisa Stapley defied every description of a lady. But it was mere misfortune which was responsible for many of her misadventures. Having rescued her from her most recent mishap, Lord Alnstrop deci...

  • Love in a Spin

    Mary Lyons

    She thought she'd put the past behind. Stephanie had made a home for herself and her young son Adam in the quiet Cotswold village--and was content with her life. It was a shock to learn that Maxim Tyler had moved into the manor house. The m...

  • A Secret Understanding

    Patricia Wilson

    Their relationship was explosive Ever since Jordan Reece had come as the new editor of the Bradbury Herald, the morning conferences were a battleground where he and Cassandra Preston crossed swords. Jordan knew that Cassy resented him, and whe...

  • Willowswood Match

    Gayle Buck

    The love-shy young lady A most painful experience in love sent beautiful young Miranda Wainwright from her home in America to the estate of her aristocratic cousin in England. Here she could start a new life, far from humiliating memories of betra...

  • Old Tin Sorrows

    Glen Cook

    A CORPS OF CORPSES was what it seemed Garrett had committed himself to find when Blake Peters turned up to reclaim some overdue favors. Someone was trying to kill Peters' boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and may...

  • Magic's Pawn

    Mercedes Lackey

    MAGE-CRAFT Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wants no part of such things. Nor does he seek a warrior's path, wishing instead to become a Bard. Yet such talent as his if left untrained m...

  • Bad Voltage

    Jonathan Littell

  • A Writer's Nightmare

    R.K. Narayan

  • Vengeance

    Jerry Ahern

    The FLNA terrorists had thought that by breaking Patriot leader David Holden, they would be one giant step closer to conquering America. So they had kidnapped him and held him captive in a South American cocaine country, where he was subjected to rut...

  • Ghostbusters II

    Ed Naha

    The dauntless heroes who caused spines to tingle and ghosts to flee in the original "Ghostbusters" are back in fine form, wreaking havoc on the spirit wiorld as they set out to rescue Dana from further ghostly phenomena...

  • Love, Pain,and The Whole Damn Thing

    Doris Dorrie

    Four witty, bitter-sweet stories by talented young German film-writer whose film "Men" reached out beyond its obvious feminist audience to achieve great success in New York and London. Men and films, and the dreams that films embody, form the backgro...

  • The Place

    T.M. Wright

    Greta King is scared. There’s no one home, and she’s locked out. Something is very wrong. Even The Place, Greta’s imaginary world, is touched by terror. The bright blue sky has turned black-red, and the magical cats won’t talk anymore. ...

  • Devil's Plunder

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • The Priory

    Margaret Wasser

  • Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

  • Big Planet

    Jack Vance

    The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and t...

  • Savage Fury

    Wanda Owen

    INNOCENT DREAMER Lovely auburn-haired Gillian was secure in her quiet world on a remote ranch in Arizona Territory, yet she longed for romance and excitement. But her girlish fantasies didn't prepare her for the strange new feelings that assaulted h...

  • Hoa Tien Killers

    John Lansing

  • Knight of the Living Dead

    Allen Varney
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  • Mississippi Massacre

    J.R. Roberts

    They were about as different as snake oil and springwater. But when Justin Tarr eyed another man's wife in a smoky gambling hall, it was Clint Adams who pulled him out of the mix-up and saved his hide. That was the first time the unlikely duo brushed...

  • Longarm and the Outlaw Sheriff

    Tabor Evans

  • Lone Star on the Warpath

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki declare war on a band of ruthless rustlers!There is no such thing as a "routine" cattle drive, and this time is no exception for the Lone Star duo. Jessie and Ki must track down the killers of her trail boss while fending off Brave Buff...

  • The Midnight Bride

    Barbara Allister

    PRIDE BEFORE A FALL Beautiful and proud Elizabeth Beckworth refused to wed. Even when her brother demanded that she do so to advance his ambitions. Even when the seductive Sebastian Hartley used all his worldly wiles to induce her to say yes. Even...

  • Fallen Angel

    Deborah Camp

    They followed the perilous passions of their hearts... It was fate that left beautiful Justine Drussard stranded in Tombstone, and desperation that made her take a job in the local brothel. She counted on her wits and acting ability to get by with...

  • Love's Own Crown

    Laurie Grant

    A LOVE WORTH MORE THAN KINGDOMS... Every nobleman who saw the beautiful troubadour, Lady Alouette, wanted her. Yet Alouette vowed she would never surrender to a man, for her past hid a tragedy that had left her lost in darkness and determined to e...

  • Love and Laughter

    Carole Buck

    Even though Kelsey Howard has just thrown a pie in his face, Elias Fletcher, genius extraordinaire, senses this gorgeous comedienne is no clown. It's glorious luck, Elias thinks, that put him -- aim -- within her range. Spontaneous and vibrant, Kelse...

  • Miami Midnight

    Maggie Davis

    Upon her return from Europe, Gabrielle Collier endeavors to help her alcoholic mother and save the family mansion, but when she becomes involved with the millionaire James Santo Marin she may be risking all that she loves...

  • A Wild Desire

    Rebecca George

    HE HAD A DATE WITH A DECK OF CARDS...THEN HE MET BRIER MORGAN Lighthearted Brier Morgan always bowed to the strict commands of her iron-willed Mormon parents -- until her father presumed to arrange her marriage! Stowed away on a produce wagon, the...

  • Princess of Fire

    Shannon Drake

    Amid the Furious Cry of Battle, a Private War of Passion Had Just Begun . . . Hastings; 1066. Clouds of war darkened the horizon as Saxons and Normans clashed with a vengeance. Yet another battle raged ... as two sparring hearts collided ... ...

  • The Cinderella Bride

    Jacqueline Fleury

    WITH BEAUTY BEAUTY TO BURN... and an elegant air, Isobel Woodward was carted off to Bath for the Season by her aunt. The indomitable Lady Tittam hoped to match her lovely niece with a wealthy husband, thereby restoring the family's social standing a...

  • Lady Sara's Scheme

    Emily Hendrickson

    A SHOPPING LIST FOR THE MARRIAGE MART Lady Sara Harland was as sensible as she was beautiful. Since she had to have a husband, she decided to take her pick from a list of the choicest lords available. One name, however, she crossed off her list...

  • Bridge of Fire

    Fiona Harrowe

    As the dark shadow of the Spanish Inquisition falls over seventeenth-century Mexico, Francisca di Silva, the lovely daughter of a family that hides its Jewish heritage, falls in love with Miguel Velaquez...

  • Eden's Promise

    Cassie Edwards

    Beautiful, wild-eyed and golden-haired, Eden Whitney was the most delectable woman Zach Tyson had ever found trussed up in the hold of his pirate ship. As dangerous and turbulent as the dark seas he sailed, Zach knew a priceless treasure when he saw ...

  • Wildfire

    Norah Hess

    SWORN ENEMIES The Yankees had killed her sweetheart, imprisoned her brother and driven her from her home...but beautiful, golden-haired Serena Bain faced the future boldly as the wagon trains rolled out. Ahead lay countless dangers. But all the peri...

  • Fair Game

    Doreen Owens Malek

    ALL SHE NEEDED WAS IN HIS TOUCH . . . She was both an important attorney and Senator Joseph Fair's daughter--a porcelain and gold beauty who worked among Washington's political elite. And when Ashley Fair joined her father's hectic presidential ca...

  • Camelot Jones

    Mayo Lucas

    Camelot Jones lived in a simple country life with modest dreams until she met Elliott Hamilton, a wealthy and handsome city man. Cammie hadn't seen much of the world, but she knew enough not to trust adventure-seekers like Mr. Hamilton. And Elliott ...

  • Seductive Scoundrel

    Victoria London

    HIGH-HANDED MISS Should he silence her with kisses or with death? That was Lord Logan Hammond's choice when he overheard gorgeous Gillian Marlowe rattling on about the traitorous conversation she'd overheard. If the virile American spy kil...

  • Pirate's Bride

    Lynette Vinet

    He'd take her with or without he "I do"! CAPTURED BY THE HAWK All young Bethlyn Talbot had wanted when she set sail for the colonies was to track down the husband she'd been forced to wed as a child. Then her ship was attacked by ...

  • Forever the Dream

    Mary Pershall

    Northern California, 1878. Monterey was the golden land where Major Jeremy Morgan built a flourishing empire and made his vast fortune. Where, basking in the luxuiant glow of prosperity, he and his wife Ariana raised their children. Hamilton....A vis...

  • Desert Bride

    Joanne Redd

    FROM ENGLAND TO A PASHA'S HAREM TO THE BURNING SANDS OF THE SAHARA... Fleeing an English nobleman's wrath, Lorna Winters became a Barbary pirate's prize, sold to a pasha's harem. Her violet eyes and auburn hair promised a king's ransom--and soon it ...

  • Out of the Blue

    Dianne Thomas

    Car, clothes, and money stolen, April Conway and her daughter, Staci, are stranded in a local police station, waiting for Jake the Rake to come and get them. The father of Staci's pen pal, Jake is an all-star athlete, a notorious womanizer, and April...

  • Star Spangled Lover

    Linda Vail

    DESIRE--PRIMITIVE, EXCITING...AND OUT OF CONTROL! For Laura Newton, the vast unchanging desert of the American Southwest was filled with mystery and irresistible challenge. Determined to save priceless Navajo relics from looters, she was risking h...

  • Sanctuary

    Joseph P. Desario

    “DeSario is a miracle worker. . . . [He] swings for the fences and knocks it clear out of the park.”   Booklist     In Joseph P. DeSario’s suspenseful novel, tabloid reporter Matt Teller’s discovery of a brutal crime leads...

  • Death Wind

    Don Pendleton

    TROPIC HELL A hard probe into a cocaine pipeline leads Mack Bolan to a Caribbean drug lord and into a shadowy KGB conspiracy. Increased Soviet activity on the island of Grenada points to something more sinister than drug trafficking--and much more...

  • Final Rain

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?John Thomas Rourke's remarkable survival skills enabled him to emerge unscathed from the nuclear devastation of W.W. III. But terrifying new storm clouds loom over th...

  • Bloodwind

    Charles L. Grant

    Pat Shavers was an artist and a teacher. She'd had a rough life: a divorce, and the loss of her child. But now things seemed to be in order. Except for the strange force riding in the daily movements of her life. A threat rising in the envy of her co...

  • Gates of Paradise

    V.C. Andrews

    STUNNED BY TRAGEDY, DESPARATE ADN ALONE, HEAVEN'S DAUGHTERS CLING TO THE FRAILEST OF DREAMS! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatt...

  • Tales by Moonlight II

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • The Skull

    Shaun Hutson

    THE SKULL It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground... waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life. But when Nick Regan discovered the skull on a construction site, he and his archeologist wife C...

  • On My Honor

    Malacai Black

  • Strike

    Eric Helm

  • Fantasma

    Thomas F. Monteleone

    Family against family -- to the death!The blood feud between the Manzaras and the Candelottos began when the first Mazara strega cursed the family's hated rivals for Mafia power. Now the younger generation does battle with guns and explosives, abando...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    Frank Lambirth

  • Beastnights

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Death Planet

    P.M. Griffin

    Armed for justice, trained to kill--they are the best of the best. Star Commandos. A military elite, forged in a galactic conflict. War's end marks the beginning of their mission: to protect human colonies from the blood-drenched clutches of post-war...

  • Lords of Thlassa Mey

    Dennis McCarty

  • The Gryphon King

    Tom Deitz

    The contents of a mislaid box from the University of Georgia's Rare Book Library includes crumpled newspapers, British bestsellers, old leather-bound folios, and a sword that seems possessed by a mysterious evil...

  • Desperate Measures

    Joe Clifford Faust

    Late on payments for his spaceship and abandoned by his crew, James May jumped at the chance to hire a copilot who came complete with cargo. Next thing May knew, the copilot was a washout, the cargo was worthless, and his ship had been repossessed...

  • The Enigma Variations

    John Maddox Roberts

    They changed his name, wiped his memory clean, and replaced his hand with a thing of polished steel. But the man called Slate will stop at nothing to regain his past and the woman whose face he almost remembers. Who or what is Slate? The giant corpor...

  • The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle

    Keith Taylor

  • The Crash of Empire

    Jerry Pournelle

    Empires do not grow old gracefully. As the edifice of ancient government succumbs to entropy, as civil war reigns, the result is indeed "interesting times," the times of interstellar Huns locked in mortal combat with Imperial storm troopers. Original...

  • But What of Earth?

    Piers Anthony

  • Mute

    Piers Anthony

    Interstellar adventure awaits an unlikely hero when he’s recruited to save the galaxy in this thrilling space opera from the bestselling author.Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a doub...

  • Casting Fortune

    John M. Ford

  • Fire Lord

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    FIRE MADNESS -- was released on Serii when the master sorcerer, Lord Venkarel, fought for and won temporary control of the Taomin, a matrix of Power which, in the hands of Horlach, the last of the ancient Sorcerer-Kings, could have enslaved the entir...

  • Far Harbor

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • Ingulf the Mad

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • The Ecolitan Operation

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE The Empire spans the human galaxy, its agents everywhere. Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, intelligent and highly trained, succeeds too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship and the result ...

  • Hide and Seek

    Paul Preuss

    The third in a spectacular new series of science fiction thrillers evolving from the work of Arthur C. Clarke, the best-selling author of 2061: Odyssey Three. Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities of superhuman ...

  • Doctor Who and the Masque of the Mandragora

    Philip Hinchcliffe

    IN 1492, DOCTOR WHO CAME OUT OF THE BLUE It is the Italian Renaissance during the corrupt reign of the powerful Medicis. Doctor Who, angry because he was forced to land on Earth by the incredible Mandragora Helix, walks right into a Machiavellian ...

  • The Sorcerer's Curse

    Paula Volsky

  • Dawn's Uncertain Light

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    After The Fall … America's Great Dream is over. Centuries ago it was devastated by the ultimate war. The effects still linger. Food is scarce, water even scarcer and human compassion nowhere to be found. Even so, society is slowly rebuilding i...

  • The Dragons of Komako

    John Gregory Betancourt

  • The Curse of Slagfid

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE UNDISCOVERABLE CURSE Leifr and Thurid were in trouble--worse than usual. In Leifr's efforts to recover his lost love, Ljosa, and Thurid's attempt to escape the Inquisitors they had fallen into the hands of the evil Master Wizard Djofull. Djofu...

  • Beamriders!

    Martin Caidin

    THE TECHNOLOGY: A Giant Step Into the Future In the thirty years since lasers were invented, we have learned to use them for jobs as diverse as eye surgery and missile defense. But the biggest advance is yet to come: one day soon we will be able to...

  • The God Machine

    Martin Caidin

  • The Folk of the Fringe

    Orson Scott Card

    Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological, and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Desere...

  • The Fortress

    Colin Wilson

  • The Price of Glory

    Lynn Bartlett

    WHAT PRICE FAME? Reporter Cassandra Blake would do anything for a story, even place her own life in peril. Then she met her new boss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seth Winter. Suddenly she didn't know which to fear more-terrorist threats or t...

  • The Gift

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Home... Back to the land of Sweet Water, West Virginia. Mary Rose Perkins needed to get back to her roots, to the life that she was destined for. There had never been any doubt that she would return to help her people. Setting up her medical pract...

  • Teach Me

    Stella Bagwell

    Who's Teaching Whom? Bernadette Baxter saw no harm in giving her boss a few pointers on the art of courtship when he asked. After all, a man as kind as Mr. Atwood deserved the woman of his dreams. But after a few "practice" dates, Bernadette bega...

  • Temperatures Rising

    Sandra Brown

    Mysterious, elusive Chantal duPont was an enchanting forest nymph in a revealing white gown, beckoning Scout Ritland into the sultry night with promises of pleasure in her breathtaking blue eyes. But when the exquisite island princess pulled a gun an...

  • Fire and Ice

    Patt Bucheister

    When John Zachary arrived in his office to find his three-year-old daughter, Amy, playing happily, he was relieved -- and intrigued by Lauren McLean, the lovely woman who'd charmed the child he barely knew. Unexpected custody of Amy had left the ...

  • Irresistible

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. JUNE & A MAN WITH A MISSION Major Quinn McNamara's assignment to infiltrate a dangerous rebel camp in the wilds of North Africa had just been changed. Now the fierce agent had to rescue a wealthy senator's daughter. If Quinn didn't save Jennif...

  • Lucky in Love

    Laurien Berenson

    He was the Rolls-Royce of heroes When Sam Donahue opened his luxury car showroom next to Lucky Panderholden's used car lot, Lucky knew she was in trouble. His slick European autos made her Late Model Lovelies look shabby by comparison. So Lucky ha...

  • Phantom Filly

    Caroline Burnes

    Speed Dancer was missing, and the mysteriously sent video was the first clue in three years that he might still be alive. As horse trainer at Dancing Water Ranch, Dawn Markey had every reason to want to get their prize stallion back. Even when the tr...

  • Until Spring

    Pamela Browning

    She didn't know her real name... And the streets were her home. But Jane Rhodes knew that she deserved a roof over her head, a job, a better way of life. She'd struck out from the blustery streets of Chicago, hoping to reach sunny Californ...

  • Simply Irresistible

    Barbara Boswell

    Surgeon Jason Fletcher was the hospital heartbreaker, a gorgeously virile playboy with no scruples--until he stepped in to protect Laura Novak from a hotshot younger doctor! Why had he, the man without a possessive bone in his body, suddenly felt jea...

  • The Roses of Constant

    Bethany Campbell

    Evil inhabited the town Some kind of madness had overtaken everyone but Valery Essex. Lifetime neighbors were lying under oath. Planting evidence in her backyard. Making midnight phone calls designed to terrorize her. Unless Valery got to the hear...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Sara Chance

    WHO WAS CINNAMON CARTIER? Plenty of government people wanted to know. The brainy beauty had managed to mold an unknown candidate into a presidential hopeful, and her mysterious background made her a security risk. So Special Agent Ben Forsythe was...

  • Tiger Dawn

    Kathleen Creighton

    THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY Zoologist Sarah Fairchild had a mission in Indonesia: to protect the life of the endangered orangutan. But deep in the steamy rain forests she encountered an altogether different species -- the magnificent jungle pre...

  • Airwaves

    Suzannah Davis

    SHE HAD A SPECIAL WAY WITH WORDS Every morning Chattanooga woke to the sweet sounds of deejay Summer Jones. Host of WCHT's Coffee Club, she was the toast of the town -- until the station was sold to its biggest competitor. The new boss, Ryd...

  • Heather on the Hill

    Barbara Faith

    A storm-tossed cliff in the Scottish Highlands was the last place Blythe Warner expected to find magic. Yet from the moment gorgeous Cameron MacCabe stepped out of the mist to rescue her from certain harm, she was swept away by the sweetest enchantme...

  • Above Suspicion

    Andrea Edwards

    NO WAY OUT When attorney Jonathon Tyler met Claire Heywood, he was shocked. Not only was the bewitching woman the image of his late wife, she was also in deep trouble. Jon wanted to help Claire, but when he discovered she was spying on him, he won...

  • Frontiers of the Heart

    Lucy Elliot

    A Dream to Share Three years had passed since Philippa DeGraff's thwarted attempt to stow away on the clipper ship Valkyrie, but memories of the rogue Captain Burke Sinclaire still singed her heart. No longer a rebellious child, she set sail for Cal...

  • The Player Knight

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    LOVE UPON THE WICKED STAGE... Lovely Arabella Ashmore knew that a proper young lady would not dream of becoming an actress, no matter how talented she might be. She also knew that a proper young lady would never fall in love with an actor; no matt...

  • Not Part of the Bargain

    Susan Fox

    Wade had come to take her back to Texas Just before his death, Joanna's father had put Wade Hollister in charge of his ranch and all his financial assets. He'd also given Wade his daughter. Joanna, an insecure, overweight seventeen-year...

  • The Enchanted Summer

    Victoria Glenn

    GUYS AND DOLLS When Derek Randall's New York City company sent him to a small town upstate to purchase the rights to the Baby Katy doll, the executive found himself facing the toy's living model -- and the very same mystery woman who'd...

  • Highland Whispers

    Sharon Gillenwater

    WHISPERS OF PASSION From the sweet-scented moors of the Highlands to the elegant salons of Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, beautiful Sheridan Sinclair was pursued by a madman. Obsessed by Sheridan's uncanny resemblance to her mother, ...

  • Mermaid

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Mark Forsythe knew it was impossible, an illusion -- he'd caught a golden-haired mermaid on his fishing line! But Gillian Lockstead was deliciously real, a woman of sweet mystery who filled him with a joy he'd forgotten existed. When Gillian ...

  • Ageless Passion, Timeless Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    AFTER HOURS Evergreen Industries needed an on-site day-care center, and Assistant Personnel Manager Kirsten Anderson was going to see that they got one. She strongly believed that her ideas would benefit the company, as well as its employees. When...

  • Face Value

    Celeste Hamilton

    Beau Collins was frantic. Where would he find a fresh face to launch his national ad campaign? Crawling through the wrong bathroom window one night, he discovered it--at the end of a gun barrel! Serious, bespectacled Caitlin Welch was perfect for his...

  • Moon Shadow

    Janice Kaiser

    WORLDS APART Beneath the shadowed moon, Kira Lowell found herself mesmerized by the fire she saw in Joshua Bearclaw's eyes. The moment he touched her, she was lost in his exotic magic, a spell so powerful that she forgot he was the enemy. Joshua w...

  • Man of Her Dreams

    Tami Hoag

    When Rylan Quaid proposed to Maggie McSwain at his sister's wedding, joy and fierce disappointment warred in her heart. She'd loved him forever, wanted him desperately. But could he really be so insensitive that he would suggest it was time he settle...

  • Midsummer Masque

    Coral Hoyle

    Nothing was going as Julia wished The daughter of a bishop, Julia Witton had some-how reached the grand age of four-and-twenty unmarried. So her parents had arranged for her to wed the odious Mr. Oglesby. Julia's efforts to escape this fate re...

  • Miss Chartley's Guided Tour

    Carla Kelly

    THE BETRAYED BEAUTY When lovely young Omega Chartley was left at the altar by the man she loved, her life turned from a dream into a nightmare. Penniless, she had to find employment far below her station. Heartbroken, she could not think of ever...

  • Midnight Blue

    Nancy Landon

    THEY'D BEEN FOES FOR GENERATIONS No way was Caroline McAlester going to let Luke O'Connor develop his theme park in Granbury, Texas. It would turn her beloved hometown into a bustling, tacky tourist mecca. But Luke wasn't going to let any high-...

  • Playing With Fire

    Risa Kirk

    THEY HAD A LOT IN COMMON Yet they were bitter rivals from the start. Cal Stewart and Mary Nell Barrigan were two Tacoma-based engineers competing for the same contract. Each needed desperately to win it. Mary Nell had put her sister through nur...

  • The Loving Season

    Cait London

    FAIR GAME Diana Phillips needed time alone to find a new direction in life, so she headed for Colorado's wide-open spaces. But a hotel reservations mistake forced her to board with rancher Mac Maclean. And she quickly found her thoughts straying, ...

  • Diamonds in the Night

    Catherine Linden

    When Victorian beauty Olwyn Moore found herself in the savage wilderness of South Africa, she was penniless, abandoned by the man she loved. Never did she dream that the worthless pebble in her possession was actually a priceless diamond, or that it ...

  • For All My Tomorrows

    Debbie Macomber

    Suddenly widowed Lynn Danfort had felt doubly bereft when her husband's best friend abruptly left town. Now, three years later, husky Ryder Matthews was back, and to Lynn's astonishment, he seemed to be offering far more than friendship. Was his tend...

  • A Question of Honor

    Lindsay McKenna

    Orders were orders, but battle-weary undercover agent Kit Anderson chafed at seeking refuge from death threats in the house of her new boss, Coast Guard Lieutenant Noah Trayhern. Noah's cold authority masked inner demons to rival her own; his rough k...

  • The Royal Treatment

    Judith McWilliams

    What had she done to deserve this? It just wasn't Eleanore Fulton's day. As it i weren't disaster enough, she suddenly found herself sole guardian of her cousin's baby. Then, to top it off, millionaire Arab playboy arrived on her doorstep with an ...

  • Holly's Hope

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Holly Chambers was beautiful... but she appeared to be dead! Justin Hope was shocked at the sight of bodies lying everywhere. What disaster had befallen the pretty Wisconsin town, and how could he help the lovely woman lying on the grass before him? ...

  • Captive Enchantress

    Gina Robins

    SHE'D GRANT HIM THREE WISHES When clever Chelsie Channing escaped her abductors by hiding in a men's bathhouse, it was too late before she realized she'd jumped from the frying pan into the fire. The soapy tub where she sought refuge belonged to non...

  • Mississippi Madness

    Eugenia Riley

    HE SAVED HER LIFE … THEN TAUGHT HER TO LOVE… A rare man indeed, this Jared Hampton. Reckless, gallant, and afraid of no one, he not only pulled half-naked Jasmine Dubroc, a penniless orphan, from the black depths of the Mississippi River, but da...

  • Leah's Story

    Fayrene Preston

    When Zarah, the old gypsy woman, gave her the wondrous string of creamy pearls, promising that a man with cinnamon-colored hair would enter her life and magic would follow, Leah insisted she didn't believe in such pretty illusions. But when handsome ...

  • The Tart Shoppe

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    Teas and Cakes for Discriminating Tastes The sign outside The Tart Shoppe door came as a welcome relief to Lady Constance. She and her Aunt Millicent were travelling from Cornwall to London. Yet afflicted as she was with a violent illness, Constan...

  • Passion's Golden Fire

    Susan Sackett

    His searching caresses ignited Passion's Golden Fire ECSTASY'S HEIGHTS All Sabine Payne wanted was to be the perfect daughter to her widowed father and to become an archeologist like him. Then one night, deep in the Yucatan jungle, she c...

  • Sharing California

    Jeanne Stephens

    PUPPY LOVE What was Annie Malloy supposed to do with half of California? And why on earth did she have to share custody of the crazily named basset-hound star of a dog food commercial with her ex-lover, Sam Bennington? Not that she didn't like ani...

  • Season of Passion

    Danielle Steel

    Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars.  They share an idyllic and glamorous first love.  But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together.  A failed suicide atte...

  • It Takes Two

    Joan Smith

    IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO Wes Adler seemed to have it all--a high-powered career and his pick of the finest things life had to offer. Still, Wes was certain that something was missing--something he couldn't find. But when he met hotel concierge Jennie...

  • King of Hearts

    Tracy Sinclair

    Suave, mysterious Morgan Destine asked more questions than he answered. But sheltered schoolteacher Stephanie Blair knew one thing for certain: he ruled her senses, and she ached to have him end the torment he created with almost casual expertise. ...

  • A Little Rebellion

    Beverly Sommers

    It was deja vu all over again When Neil Blessing walked into Flanagan's bar, sat down with the Rooftop Gang and ordered the ritual Friday-night roast beef platter, Kevin looked pleased. Andy looked uneasy. And Lulu Lenahan looked ready to spit nai...

  • Repeat Performance

    Lynda Trent

    Years ago, Jordan Landry had broken their engagement--and Carley Kingston's heart--to marry another woman. Left behind in the small Texas community of Apple Tree, where rumors and gossip die hard, Carley had tried to forget--but she hadn't forgiven. ...

  • Wildflower

    Laura Taylor

    IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT... When Alexa Rivers discovered the truth about her arranged marriage the night before her wedding, she couldn't go through with the ceremony and hastily fled the altar. Then an accident left her injured and helpless on a des...

  • Full Coverage

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    She wasn't covered for heartbreak Giving away teddy bears was a crazy way for Max Armstrong to attract customers--or so insurance agent Clare Pemberton thought. She figured she'd have no trouble, wiping out his cuddly brand of competition ... unti...

  • Too Many Weddings

    Pamela Roth

    Those she joined he put asunder Willie Webster had performed enough weddings to believe in the power of love--and marriage. Matt Bailey had handled too many divorce cases to think love was even worth a try. But the fact that he equated love with m...

  • His Kind of Woman

    Pat Tracy

    MEANT FOR EACH OTHER He'd been her late husband's fiercest rival, and for Grace Banner that was reason enough to stay away from Matthew Hollister -- even if he was mesmerizingly attractive. The moment he saw Grace, Matthew knew she was one of a...

  • A Private Affair

    Kelly Walsh

    NICK MALONE, P.I, WAS CONFUSED .... Ever since Laurel Davis--personal manager of movie star Diana Baxter--had come into his life, he had felt like the co-star of an action-packed adventure film! First there was the seemingly unsolvable case of ...

  • The Notorious Nabob // The Nabob

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    THE DUKE'S DAUGHTER Lady Olivia Egan was the daughter of a duke--but she had fallen far from that high estate. Only by wedding well could she climb out from under her late father's mountain of debt. Her choices were dismal. There was vastly wea...

  • Liar's Moon

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THIEF OF HEARTS Michael Conti met Alexandria Thomas while she was committing a near-perfect crime: stealing an expensive bracelet from a posh L.A. jewelry store. Only his intervention kept her from walking away with the booty. He knew he ought to ...

  • Treasure Hunters

    Val Whisenand

    WINNER TAKE ALL Jason Daniels had a secret mission: pose as a quiz-show contestant and weed out the dishonest players. Unfortunately, the most obvious candidate for deception was his teammate, Lori Kendall. No matter that Lori seemed too up-front ...

  • Dandelion

    Bronwyn Williams

    Another Man's Woman . . . Cabel Rawson didn't have to resort to paying a woman for her favors. So when he saw the delicate dockside beauty unsuccessfully plying her trade, he hated himself for the desire she aroused in him. Maggie McNair had ru...

  • Love Me Like a Rock

    Leigh Anne Williams

    They had absolutely nothing in common... The absentminded professor and the fast-track ad exec. Archaeologist Ethan Brody was out of place in Stacy Morrison's career-oriented New York City world. Ethan had spent the last eight years in a primitive...

  • A Masculine Ending

    Joan Smith (1)

    Loretta Lawson, English professor at London University, is annoyed when she discovers a sleeping stranger in the supposedly empty Paris flat she has borrowed. When she returns from a feminist literary conference to find the stranger gone but his bed...

  • My Kind of Game

    Marvin Albert

  • Before the Dawn

    Mickey Block

  • Murder Is My Business

    Brett Halliday

    MURDER AT THE RIO GRANDE

    Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shay...

  • Dismissed With Prejudice

    J.A. Jance

    THE MARK OF A CARELESS KILLER Tadeo Kurobashi loved poetry, studied Samurai history, and operated his own software company. When they found him dead on the floor with a Samurai sword by his hand, it looked like hara-kiri. Except for one thing. An ...

  • The Price of Murder

    John D. MacDonald

    John D. MacDonald’s The Price of Murder features a complex plot told in a multiple-character format. Published in 1957 as a paperback original, The Price of Murder begins with the troubled marriage of English college professor Lee Bronson and his v...

  • Gideon's Day

    J.J. Marric

    Available for the first time, The Gideon of Scotland Yard Series by 'JJ Marric' (pseudonym of Grand Master John Creasey).

    Gideon's day is a busy one. London is faced with the murder of a little girl and a policeman's murder. While trying to ...

  • Sick of Shadows

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Another bride, Another groom, Another lazy afternoon... Of murder. ENGAGED TO BE MURDERED Eileen Chandler, of the very eccentric Georgia Chandlers, is all set to be married. Unfortunately nobody much likes the groom; they fear he's out to s...

  • But Nellie Was So Nice

    Mary McMullen

    A pleasant middle-aged spinster, Nellie Hand is everybody's friend and confidante, learning all of her friends' innermost secrets until one of them decides that, nice as she is, Nellie should be silenced permanently...

  • Dead Crazy

    Nancy Pickard

    Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher -- only to uncover clues that put her ...

  • The Kentish Manor Murders

    Julian Symons

    What the Haynes encounter at Castle Baskerville is, in Val’s words “really screwy.” A tycoon apparently allergic to light surrounded by moats and drawbridges and a permanent staff of guards, doctors, nurses and “companions: who work under the...

  • Heir to the Dragon

    Robert N. Charrette

    BLOOD-SOAKED DYNASTY Theodore Kurita is heir apparent to the Draconis Combine, one of the most powerful realms of the Inner Sphere. But the Draconis Combine has never been a place of smooth transitions. Historically, a Kurita proves himself fit to...

  • Carolina Skeletons

    David Stout

    As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow the two bicycling white girls. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Maybe it’s the way Cindy Lou speaks to him, o...

  • A Season of Swans // A Wild Legacy

    Celeste De Blasis

    After the firestorm of violence and tragedy that severed North from South and brother from brother, the Falconer dynasty--like the nation itself-- needs time to heal, to rebuild, to rise from the ashes. Waiting in the wings is a new generation of Fal...

  • Princess of Hanover

    Helene Lehr

  • My First Murder

    Susan P. Baker

    Former parole officer Mavis Davis, now a rookie private investigator, becomes embroiled in deceit, violence, and scandal while investigating the murder of Doris Jones, a woman with many disturbing secrets...

  • Badger Game

    Michael Bowen

    Ex-lawyer Thomas Andrew Curry and Sandrine Cadette--romatic sparring partners and occasional sleuths--go into action when an avant-garde painting and their painter-client's lawsuit against a rival lead to murder, in a mystery set in 1962 New York...

  • Spy Story

    James Burke

  • The Death of a Joyce Scholar

    Bartholomew Gill

    Who stabbed Irish author/professor/philanderer Kevin Coyle to death on Bloomsday -- Dublin's annual citywide celebration honoring its most beloved literary figure? Who brought the promising career of the brilliant scholar to an abrupt and bloody end ...

  • Maze

    Larry Collins

    SHADOW WAR - A BATTLE OF MINDS While the CIA is doing its research into psychic powers - aided in their experiments by a woman who has the uncanny ability to locate the co-ordinates of Soviet submarines - the Russians have an altogether bigger and m...

  • Not As Far As Velma

    Nicolas Freeling

    “That artful master of the international policier . . . delivers another one of his uncommonly intelligent procedurals with Inspector Henri Castang.” -- The New York TimesWhen Police Commissaire Henri Castang is summoned to invest...

  • A Death for a Dreamer

    E.X. Giroux

    Secretary Abigail Sanderson stands for her employer, barrister Robert Forsythe, in a minor dispute involving the donation of pet dogs for inmates of a home for the elderly, only to find herself caught up in a case of murder...

  • Talking God

    Tony Hillerman

    A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancesto...

  • Dead Clever

    Roderic Jeffries

  • The Angels' Share

    Robert Irvine

    Private eye Moroni Traveler, is having a miserable summer. The temperature in Salt Lake City is 100 in the morning; his father and partner has a lump in his throat that may or may not be cancerous, and is seeking help from the Church of Latter-Day Sa...

  • Polo in the Rough

    Jerry Kennealy

    Investigative journalist Jack Slate was writing a book exposing those who had helped themselves to the Swiss-bank bounty of Iran's late Shah, and obviously someone didn't want Slate to name names. The story unfolds as a mad dash for the missing manus...

  • Other People's Money

    Arthur Lyons

    P.I. Jacob Asch is hired by a Mr. Saffarian to trail his "daughter"--unaware that the woman is actually a world-class art smuggler--an assignment that results in a missing detective and a tangled world of thievery...

  • Blood Rights

    Mike Phillips

    Black journalist Sam Dean searches for the missing daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament, and the case soon leads him deep into a world of blackmail, racial prejudice, kidnapping, and murder...

  • The Big Killing

    Annette Meyers

    Headhunters, Leslie Wetzon and Xenia Smith, go after the top guns in the financial world- Wall Street, where everyone is looking to make the big killing. A slick, successful stockbroker that Wetzon is interviewing. at the Four Seasons, leaves her to ...

  • Daddy's Girl

    John Milne

    1989, American hardcover edition, St. Martin's, NY. 201 pages. Suspense novel. London private investigator, Jimmy Jenner, returns for his third case. Milne is a marvelous writer. This time out, a drunken Hollywood actor wants to track down his daught...

  • The Book of the Dead

    Robert Richardson

    When wealthy Charles Carrington, proud owner of an unpublished Sherlock Holmes story and husband to a younger, adulterous wife, is murdered, amateur detective Augustus Maltravers must turn to Holmes himself to solve the crime...

  • Little Boxes of Bewilderment

    Jack Ritchie

  • Darkness Falls

    Joyce Anne Schneider

    The death of a young girl in a wealthy Connecticut town shakes the community in this suspenseful "tale of psychological terror, skillfully plotted, and deftly written" (San Diego Union).In the sheltered coastal town of Grand Cove, Connecticut, the si...

  • Final Dictation

    L.M. Vincent

    Radiologist and former college basketball star Townsend Reeves doesn't think twice about making an on-call switch with colleague Barry Zimmerman so he can attend a Missouri Wildcats basketball game; that is, not until Zimmerman is found bludgeo...

  • Dead Men Don't Marry

    Dorothy Sucher

  • Condition Purple

    Peter Turnbull

    In Glasgow one summer evening a frightened young woman in heels is walking. Click. Click. Click. The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city. She knows this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she knows he k...

  • Lori

    Robert Bloch

    A young woman is plunged into a nightmare of supernatural madness and violence as the birth mother Lori never knew reaches out from beyond the grave to claim her daughter's body as her own and to consign Lori's soul to eternal damnation...

  • Tourists

    Lisa Goldstein

    The 1993 American Book Award-winning author of The Red Magician presents another spellbinding tale. In a faraway land called Amaz, a family whose ordinary appearance masks hidden conflicts discovers things that change them forever. "One of the great ...

  • The Devil's Delilah

    Loretta Chase

    HOT-TEMPERED AND UNPREDICTABLE, DELILAH DESMOND WAS INDEED THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER. "Devil" Desmond, to be exact, society's most infamous rogue who had just completed his scandalous memoirs. A great many dreaded the tell-all publication, including hi...

  • Twilight of the Dawn

    Elizabeth Nell Dubus

    As the Civil War casts its ominous shadow across a divided nation, four young scions of the Old South aristocracy embrace a passionate and dangerous destiny. -- Gabrielle Canno -- The alluring and sheltered plantation miss, whose fiery independence...

  • The Heart That Lingers

    June Masters Bacher

    This gripping novel opens on the sunny shores of Southern California, where Lauren and Eric (her childhood "brother" by means of a strange relationship which only they can understand) have grown up as "summer people." When unforeseen circumstances fo...