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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Captive!

    Bill Hampton

    CAN YOU RESCUE THE COUNT IN TIME? Rome, A.D. 1296. While in the service of Count Renzo, you are awakened one night by a soldier bringing terrible news -- the count has been kidnapped! You track the kidnappers to an ancient monastery in the mountains...

  • 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...

  • Devil's Plunder

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • 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...

  • Hoa Tien Killers

    John Lansing

  • The Power of One

    Bryce Courtenay

    In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language--English, the langu...

  • Rolling Thunder

    Mark Berent

    Rolling Thunder is an historical novel about the decisive role politics played during the Vietnam War. Its characters range from men in the field to the Pentagon and the White House. Fighter pilots and Special Forces warriors try to do their be...

  • Sanction to Slaughter

    Nick Carter

  • Spartina

    John Casey

    Winner of the 1989 National Book AwardA classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family ...

  • Strike

    Eric Helm

  • Treasure

    Steve MacKenzie

    In the deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to its awful limits. Only one fighting unit has the skill and ruthlessness to handle all this killing power, making every corner of the globe its field of fire; using with chilling eff...

  • 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...

  • Warrior Sky

    Jack Hawkins

  • 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 ...

  • Blood Under the Bridge

    Bruce Zimmerman

    SAN FRANCISCO --A city of scenic perfection, where executives consult the Tarot, sunny days dawn shrouded in fog... and women are losing their heads for all the wrong reasons. Quinn Parker knows about fear. He's fought it enough. But nothing cold ...

  • The Case of the Disappearing Deejay

    Carolyn Keene

    DANGER ON THE DIAL! The hottest rock station in town has just gotten a little hotter -- and somebody's going to get burned. Nancy, Bess, and George are listening to Dan "the Wild Man" Wildman's show when there is a loud crash on the air, a call for ...

  • A Collector of Photographs

    Deborah Valentine

    'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday TelegraphSan Francisco artist Roxanne Gautier's startling paintings of male prostitutes has sent shock waves throughout the art world - and in her personal life. When Taylor Adams, her favouri...

  • 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 ...

  • Hatteras Blue

    David Poyer


    In a graveyard of the Atlantic, a treacherous sercret has been buried...until now.

    A U-boat went down in 1945, and now, more than 40 years later, the bodies of the three crewmen have surfaced near Hatteras Island. But their chilling reappe...

  • 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...

  • Over the Edge

    Carolyn Keene

    A posh resort catering to outdoor activities is plagued by a series of accidents, leading the owner to invite Nancy Drew to investigate the increasingly dangerous goings-on....

  • Peril Under the Palms

    K.K. Beck

    An exotic cruise churns up a murder wave. A Hawaiian haunting... When sugarcane heiress Antoinette Caulfield docks in Hawaii to visit her grandparents, she's met by a ghost: her school chum and chaperon, Iris Cooper, spots the figure of a woman i...

  • 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...

  • Working Murder

    Eleanor Boylan

    Clara Gamadge puts down the phone with a tremor of excitement. Only a year ago that call would have come to her husband, gifted sleuth Henry Gamadge. Now Henry is dead, and Clara is summoned to deal with the latest convulsion in an old family tragedy...

  • If Love Be Ours

    Joan W. Brown

    "With an overwhelming ambition to become a national TV anchorwoman, Katharine Hayes, successful investigative reporter in Washington, D.C., finds herself caught up in the intriguing political and social life of the national's capital."...

  • A Picnic With the Barleys

    Karen Mezek Leimert

  • Quite Honestly

    Luci Swindoll

  • Skate Expectations

    Bill Myers

    Meet Nick Martin, a normal kid with an unusual friend--the lively, animated McGee! These companion books to the award-winning videos develop the themes to a greater degree, presenting kids with important values. (Ages 8 to 12)

    In #4 Skate Expectat...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ambition

    Julie Burchill

  • 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...

  • Change of Heart

    Irene Brand
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  • China Blues

    Pamela Longfellow

    Her marriage to charming but corrupt D.A. James Hamilton crumbling, heiress Elizabeth Sian Stafford begins an affair with Chinese underworld figure Li Kwan Won, not knowing that the two will clash for control of Jazz age San Francisco...

  • Conflict

    Margaret Mayo

    Personal relationships were out Ambitious to get Berry's Cider Farm bark on its feet after her father's death, Blythe Berensen simply had no time for them. And especially not with Coburn Daggart. Years ago he had hurt her badly, and she...

  • 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 ...

  • Do You Remember Babylon?

    Anne Weale

    He could have chosen any woman he wanted Adam Rocquaine, idolized the world over for his looks and singing voice, was a man completely out of Maggie Hornchurch's experience. So far, her experience had been strictly limited to building her care...

  • Emergency

    Jessica Sutton

    A searing drama of passions and power plays within the walls of Hollywood's superstar hospital. FIGHTING FOR LIFE The quake that rocked downtown Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Hollywood has left Bel Air General battered but still standing, and the...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Sandra Marton

    She just had to do something Nicole didn't know quite how Chase Tarrant had managed to persuade her boss, Aston, to part with his new racing sloop. She was quite convinced, though, that it wasn't honestly. Although Aston didn't see...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Foolish Deceiver

    Sandra K. Rhoades

    Allie knew blondes didn't have more fun She'd spent so much of her life working on high-powered scientific projects that she didn't have much time for play. And perhaps it was hardly surprising that her first love affair ended in disas...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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? ...

  • 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...

  • Island Deception

    Elizabeth Duke

    The deception seemed harmless Gemma was determined to make the most of her holiday on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, where she'd come to heal a bruised heart. But that definitely didn't include falling in love -- particularly with...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Matter of Feeling

    Sophie Weston

    Ten years could not erase the memory When unsophisticated teenager Barbara Lamb turned her back on Portugal, she'd made a new life and career for herself in England. Her one aim was never again to have to ask anyone for help. When her old frien...

  • The Maxton Bequest

    Alison York

    "Money can't buy everything." That's what Ros told the arrogant Dan Maxton when he tried to buy the run-down Stables she inherited from his grandfather. Everything she held dear was wrapped up in the studio she'd established...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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-...

  • A Mighty Flame

    Irene Brand
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    Independent Paige Fallon is a temporary bread-and-breakfast hostess in the Cotswolds, where she is inflamed by Lord Derek's handsome son Burton. There is a minor mystery element, and the love affair is impeded by several things: his lack of deep Chri...

  • 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...

  • My Dream Guy

    Carla Bracale

    Kate Weatherby's dream of dating a gorgeous hunk are all washed up when her parents cancel a trip to the beach at the last minute. Somehow, spending a week at Hidden Ranch on Lake Vallecito in her home state of Colorado seems a lot less appealing! ...

  • Nice Girls

    Janet Kotsel Clarke

    A novel about three girls seeking fame and fortune in New York. A blonde Californian escaping her family, a glamorous redhead from Manhattan high society and a plump, self-conscious small-town girl become room-mates and find that love and fame don't ...

  • Night With a Stranger

    Joanna Mansell

    The holiday of a lifetime! That's what Lorel decided to blow her aunt's small legacy on--and damn the consequences. After two miserable years she needed a break before reassessing her future. And what could be more extravagant than a tr...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 President's Women

    June Flaum Singer

    Three women ruthless Judith, who would stop at nothing to see her son Rud, president; wild, beautiful Carlotta; and her sweet sister Francesca all desired Bill Sheridan, whose chief desire was to be president. In turn, Carlotta's daughters Jade and A...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Private Relations // Secrets at the Beach House

    Diane Chamberlain

    When his friend, a wealthy Jewish-Iranian banker and an illegal alien, is squeezed for money by a group of Muslim extremists threatening to turn him over to the INS, Fiddler steps in to help. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Riddell of Rivermoon

    Miriam MacGregor

    If only she could heal the rift... Fleur knew all about the bitter family quarrel that had divided her mother and her aunt. No word had been exchanged between the two families for ten years. So when Luke Riddell appeared from his property on th...

  • Rightfully Mine

    Doris Mortman

    For Gaby Cocroft, home and husband are everything -- until the day she is suddenly left alone, without work, without money, without love. Summoning the courage to start over, she gambles all on the tantalizing lights of New York -- only to discover t...

  • Ring of Gold

    Sandra Field

    It was not the holiday she'd planned When a friend forced her to take a much-needed break from the pressures of her job, Paige Montgomery had her own plans. Top of the list was to get her life into some kind of order. Instead she found hers...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Somebody's Baby

    Claire Harrison

  • 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...

  • Sweet Sixteen

    Linda A. Cooney

    Carrie cannot wait until she and her friends can get away from her strick stepfather and celebrate her sixteenth birthday with her real father who lets them do as they please--regardless of the consequences...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • When We're Alone

    Jane Donnelly

    It was difficult to say no to him Colin Radbrook had made a name for himself as an investigative reporter -- and wasn't easily deterred from reaching his goal. And Livvy admitted that in other circumstances she might have succumbed all too ...

  • 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...

  • Batman

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Business Careers

    Robert H Luke

  • Casting Fortune

    John M. Ford

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • The Elements of Celtic Tradition

    Caitlin Matthews

  • Far Harbor

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • 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...

  • Ingulf the Mad

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • The Lake at End of the World

    Caroline MacDonald

    Diana, one of the sole survivors of a global environmental disaster in the twenty-first century, meets Hector, a boy from a mysterious underground community, and together they fight to save the world's remaining wildlife from destruction...

  • Lords of Thlassa Mey

    Dennis McCarty

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pyramids

    Terry Pratchett

    Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi--a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father w...

  • 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 Sorcerer's Curse

    Paula Volsky

  • The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle

    Keith Taylor

  • 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 Widget, the Wadget, and Boff

    Theodore Sturgeon
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  • The Year's Best Fantasy

    Ellen Datlow

    Drawn from a range of periodicals, anthologies, and small-press publications, this collection of fantasy and horror fiction encompasses works by Jane Yolen, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Disch, and other notable authors...

  • Albert's Memorial

    David Cook

  • Almost Perfect Sum

    Rona S. Zable

    Ellen Jane Gardner lands a summer job as a mother's helper on Cape Cod and learns that she will be looking after a spoiled, nasty brat, but the sight of next-door neighbor Todd Crowley revives her enthusiasm...

  • Amy Loves the Snow

    Julia Hoban

  • Andi's War

    Billi Rosen

  • Animal Characters: An Alphabet

    Jean Christian Knaff

  • Anna Banana

    Joanna Cole

  • Annie's Pet

    Barbara Brenner

    Annie's on her way to but a pet with five birthday dollars. But by the time she reaches the pet store, the money is gone! Keep track of the disappearing dollars and find out how Annie ends up with a lot more than she bargained for....

  • The Apartment House Tree

    Bette Killion

  • Arabesques II

    Susan Shwartz

  • Arjun

    Sunil Gangopadhyay

  • The Assignment, or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

  • August Heat

    Beth Lordan

    An enchanting portrait of a small town and the secret dreams and yearnings of its inhabitants focuses on the eccentric Jacob Wilcox and his sister, Rachel, who arrives to take him back to the city to live with her...

  • Axman Cometh

    John Farris

    An artist haunted by the memory of the man who murdered her entire family twenty years ago struggles to end the nightmare by recalling his face, until she is trapped in an elevator with the killer from long-ago...

  • 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...

  • Bad Break

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Bad Voltage

    Jonathan Littell

  • The Band Never Dances

    J.D. Landis

    Devastated by her brother Jeffrey's suicide, Judy Valentine immerses herself in becoming a great drummer and forms a band with rock musician Strobe, but as her success and her desires conflict with her sadness, she must learn to live again...

  • Beansprouts

    Rosemarie Santini

    Nina Norton, adept at both ballet and baseball, finds herself torn between the wishes of her mother and her grandfather, both of whom want her to pursue a single activity, while she is unsure what she wants for herself...

  • Between the Lightning and the Thunder

    Randy Storms

  • Beyond Rope and Fence

    David Grew

    This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter X the doors of the trap shut he years ...

  • Beyond Safe Boundaries

    Margaret Sacks

  • Big Bird Flies Alone

    Felice Haus

  • 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...

  • Black Suits From Outerspace

    Gene DeWeese

  • Blind Side

    William Bayer

    Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious trauma in his past, he has for many years been unable to photograph people. When Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his life, Geoffrey's world is turned upside down. She nurtures him back to life-em...

  • Bloodletters and Badmen - Book #2

    Jay Robert Nash

  • Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat

    David Ritz

  • The Body's Memory

    Jean Stewart

    Poet, essayist, and disability-rights activist Stewart writes "a remarkable first novel . . . less about disability than about the evolution of a reflective soul through the vehicle of disablement" (Orlando Sentinel). "A frank calls to arms."--San Fr...

  • Bunnykins Rhyming Games

    Colin Twinn

    Simple instructions encourage parents to teach children such classic rhyming games as "Pat-a-Cake" and "I'm a Little Teapot" while colorful illustrations of Beatrix Potter's Bunnykins hold children's imaginations and attention...

  • Call and Response

    T.R. Pearson

    Meandering from comic set pieces to hilarious digressions, Call and Response perfectly captures the peculiar lilts and rhythms of the South -- and spins a magical tale of love and all its manifold complications. The novel centers on Nestor Tudor, a m...

  • Cally's Enterprise

    Claudia Mills

  • Cannes

    Iain Johnston

    This first novel by a well known film critic is a wickedly accurate and witty insider's view of the movie world as well as a compelling, commercial and ingenious story. It is May 1997, the eve of Hong Kong's return to communist China, and the film wo...

  • Cartomancer

    Anne Spillard

  • The Case of the Cool-Itch Kid

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Dawn Bosco's on her way to summer camp. She can't wait for the fun to begin, but when her shell mirror and a favorite pin disappear, it's time for the Polka Dot Private Eye to investigate.

    Dawn's sure one of the kids from the Coolidge School--...

  • Casey on the Loose

    Frank Deford

    A humorous and colorful account of the fateful day that Casey stepped up to bat and struck-out to unprecedented disappointment combines real and fictional characters to vividy convey the ups and downs of late-nineteenth-century life and baseball...

  • Celebrating With Flowers

    Jane Packer

    This work contains ideas for arranging flowers to celebrate special occasions as well as to turn an ordinary room into a celebration in itself. The author created the wedding bouquet for Sarah Ferguson and has been described as a pioneer of the natur...

  • The Challenge

    A.B.C. Whipple

  • The Champions

    Paul Nichols

  • Chopper Pilot

    Cat Branigan

    They were America's elite, battle-hardened flyers, men who came from every service and every corner of the war. They lived with the agony and irony that was Vietnam and flew with courage and commitment. This is their story....

  • Circles Effect and Its Mysteries

    George Meaden

  • 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...

  • Coming Back to Life

    P.M.H. Atwater

    According to a Gallup Poll, as many as eight million Americans have had at least one near-death experience. This fascinating phenomenon has been the focus of much investigation in recent years -- but its after-effects, the ways that near-death experi...

  • Coming of Age

    Jonathon Havard

    This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1096 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is...

  • A Compelling Case

    Michael Underwood

  • The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

    Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes for her novels. This collection of nearly fifty pieces brings together the contents of two published volumes, A Haunted House and Mrs. Dalloway’s Party; a nu...

  • Crossed Swords

    Sean Flannery

    Retired CIA agent Wallace Mahoney has every reason to want to see Chernov, his lifelong enemy in the KGB, dead and buried. But now vengeance must be put on hold -- the Soviet spy has uncovered a conspiracy so vast that it will take both of them to pu...

  • Darci in Cabin 13

    Martha Tolles

  • Dark Tapestry

    Anna James

  • Deathless, the

    Myles Murchison

    After eminent scientist Walker Stevenson is killed trying to discover Ponce de Leon's legendary city of eternal life, Stevenson's lover, Dr. Harriet May Eddy, tries to solve his murder and faces a force of staggering evil...

  • Deliver Us From Evil

    Stephen Smoke

  • The Desert of Love

    Francois Mauriac

  • Disney's Christmas Stories

    Walt Disney

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Drina Dances Alone

    Jean Estoril

    When Drina and her grandparents move from London to Australia, she worries that her ballet may suffer, but the beautiful countryside inspires her to dance, and a talent scout from a dance academy is due in town...

  • Drina Dances on Stage

    Jean Estoril

    After many months of diligent study at Chalk Green and in London, Drina takes a trip to Italy to visit her grandmother, and when several members of a touring ballet company fall ill, she gets her big chance to dance on stage....

  • Dungeon

    Random House

    Beneath the ruins of an ancient castle, there is a magical dungeon holding treasure beyond imagination. The treasure is for the taking, but first there are ferocious monsters that must be dealt with. Enter the dungeon...where only heroes dare to trea...

  • The Education of Harriet Hatfield

    May Sarton

    “Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her ...

  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo

    T.H. White

    “THERE’S AN ANGEL IN THE CHIMNEY!”Mrs. O’Callaghan had come up with some pretty farfetched notions, but when she came running to Mr. White with this announcement, he was convinced she’d lost all touch with reality. Yet when the sensible Eng...

  • Eva Luna

    Isabel Allende

    “A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a...

  • Ex-Lover

    Eleanor Bergstein

  • Facing the Music

    Larry Brown

    Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with ...

  • Family Sins

    William Trevor

    In Family Sins, William Trevor brings his tremendous empathy and keen eye for detail to these gemlike tales of country life in Ireland. Here are twelve portraits of everyday folded in crisis-haunted by memory, battered by circumstance. The middle-...

  • Fire Horse

    Denis M. Way

  • Fowl-filcher

    Ranga Rao

  • The Frankincense Trail

    Frank Kenmore

  • Fulton County

    James Goldman

  • The Further Adventures of Batman

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Game of Survival

    Dian Curtis Regan

  • Giants of Elena

    Robyn Tallis

  • Girls' Night Out

    Kathy Lette

    When Kat Kennedy, a straight-talker from Australia, wins a walk-on part in a cult Hollywood sitcom, she soon discovers the bizarre side of life there. Nude car washes, jacuzzi orgies, a drug addict heart-throb and a dead body are just a few of the th...

  • The Great Tabascoes

    John Talbot

    The Great Tabascoes are a small family of mice who travel from town to town with their magic show. They work hard to put on a good performance but they are poor and their equipment is old and worn out. Things are getting desperate - something has to ...

  • The Greatest Treasure

    Arcadio Lobato

  • Grover's Summer Vacation

    Linda Hayward