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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Leader of the Band

    Fay Weldon

    Fay Weldon mines the fields of sexuality, procreation, and astronomy in her liberating novel about the ongoing quest for self-fulfillment Sandra Harriswife, astronomer (known for discovering the planet Athena), television phenomenon, and professio...

  • 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...

  • Blood Tells

    Stephen Robertson

  • Deep Chill

    Ian Slater

    The bestselling author of Air Glow Red STATE-OF-THE-ART SUSPENSETWO THOUSAND FEET BELOW THE WAVESSHOWDOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEAUSS New York. A sixteen-thousand-ton nuclear Trident submarine lies like a giant metal coffin on the floor of the icy No...

  • The Kremlin Contract

    N.C. Weyl

  • License to Kill

    John Gardner

  • 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 ...

  • Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

  • The Abyss

    Orson Scott Card

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Born into Light

    Paul Samuel Jacobs

    Told in the first-person, this old-fashioned science fiction novel looks back upon the childhood of an old scientist. The narrator has puzzled over certain events for more than seven decades, events set into motion one morning when he was 10. A child...

  • But What of Earth?

    Piers Anthony

  • Buying Time

    Joe Haldeman

    The Nebula Awardâ€"winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money -- and for some, both are running out . . .   The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health ...

  • 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...

  • The Dragons of Komako

    John Gregory Betancourt

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The God Machine

    Martin Caidin

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

    Elizabeth Faucher

    From Wikipedia: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners III, the film tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and h...

  • Horrorvid

    Robyn Tallis

  • 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...

  • Reach

    Edward Gibson

    Reach is the story of Commander Jake Ryder and the Wayfarer 2, a deep-space probe sent out to determine the fate of its sister ship, turned suddenly and mysteriously silent. It is a heart-stopping account of uncommon courage and resolve in the face o...

  • The Walking Shadow

    Brian Stableford

    Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the future. The Earth has been devastated by war with an ...

  • The Assassin and the Deer

    Diane Weyer

    Tessa works as an undercover agent for the Organization, the top-secret arm of a human rights group. When her Boss informs her that a man has breached the security of their communications network, she accepts her assignment to terminate him. Down mou...

  • 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...

  • Before the Dawn

    Mickey Block

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • By Death Possessed

    Roger Ormerod

  • Capital Crimes

    Lawrence Sanders

    He calls himself Brother Kristos, a bearded bear of a man, whose eyes can pierce the soul. His origins are cloaked in mystery, but his present mission is clear: to take upon himself transgressions of the wives of Washington, absolving them of guilt. ...

  • 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...

  • Dead Men Don't Marry

    Dorothy Sucher

  • Deadly Score

    Paul Myers

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    Minette Marrin

  • 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...

  • The Game of the Silence

    Richard Sauer

    Locked in a Los Angeles institution, would-be screenwriter Lee Warren meets a troubled young woman whose sanity may hinge upon the truth concerning a long-ago accident, and he vows, upon release, to unravel the mystery...

  • The Liars' League

    David Delman

  • Little Boxes of Bewilderment

    Jack Ritchie

  • Love and Murder

    Peter Whalley

  • 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...

  • Message from Hong Kong

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    This lauded tale of menace and murder from one of the leading crime writers of the past two generations takes the reader on a search to exotic Hong Kong. A missing husband and a priceless jade hold the key to a terrifying secret.

    ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • My Kind of Game

    Marvin Albert

  • A Night of Errors

    Michael Innes

    An exâ€"Scotland Yard inspector is pulled out of retirement to investigate a murder and a family’s fiery legacy in this classic British mystery. Sir John Appleby has left Scotland Yard behind to retire to the country -- but there’s no escaping cr...

  • The Ninth Buddha

    Daniel Easterman

    Former British Intelligence officer Christopher Wylam's son is kidnapped by a Buddhist group that thinks he is the reincarnation of a holy man, and Wylam battles a Russian agent through 1920s India, Tibet, and Mongolia to free the boy...

  • No Way Home

    Patricia MacDonald

    With chilling echoes of a notorious, real-life murder in Connecticut, nationally bestselling author Patricia MacDonald's gripping novel unwraps the layers of fear and guilt in a small town where nothing bad ever happens -- until a pretty teenager dis...

  • 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...

  • The Race Against Time

    Bernard Palmer

  • Red Phoenix

    Larry Bond

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    From the author who collaborated with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising, this is the book that dares to show us the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat a second Korean War would unleash. How F-16s would blast across the 38th Parallel...

  • Regression

    Frank Wyka

  • The Sacred Ruins

    Bernard Palmer

  • 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...

  • The Showdown

    Bernard Palmer

  • Spy Story

    James Burke

  • Tough Enough

    W.R. Philbrick

  • White Gamma

    David Chacko

  • Witch Wood

    John Buchan

    First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England....

  • Deadly Summer

    Francine Pascal

    Revenge... Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are working as summer interns at The Sweet Valley News when they hear that a patient has escaped from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Assigned to research the man's past for an article, the twins discover th...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Current Confusion

    Kitty Grey

  • 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...

  • Fortunes of the Heart

    Marian Devon

    HOW WOULD SHE MARRY HER ONLY LOVE? HE AVOIDED HER LIKE A PLAGUE! Though the world thought her sap-skulled for refusing Lord Littlecote's hand, Mary Anne Hawtry could not marry a man she didn't love. Unfortunately, Captain Anthony Rodes, the man sh...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Crown Oklahoma

    Jim Lehrer

    One-Eyed Mack learns from a CBS broadcast that the Okies, a highly secret organized-crime group based in his very own state, is making inroads on the Mafia and terrorizing the Southwest. But this news item turns out to be a hoax concocted by disaffec...

  • 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...

  • Dead Clever

    Roderic Jeffries

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Art of Survival

    A.E. Maxwell

    What does a man do for diversion when a blow-out strands him in the snowy wilds of Santa Fe? If he's Fiddler--and he's just burned up 1500 miles of open road between California and New Mexico--he's ripe for trouble. And Native American painter Maggie...

  • Hard Candy

    Andrew H. Vachss

    Now a paid assassin, Burke is on a collision course with a man named Train, who runs a 'safehouse' for kids. But when Burke learns that his suspicions about Train are right (the safehouse keeps kids in harm's way), he becomes his own gun-for-hire....

  • 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...

  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    W. Glenn Duncan

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    Rafferty's Rule 19: When you can't tell the bad guys from the good guys, it's time to get the hell out.

    It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty d...

  • Backlash

    Paula Gosling

    THE TASK THAT FACED HOMICIDE SEEMED MONUMENTAL They had four dead cops from four different precincts, all shot through the head. The headlines were screaming cop killer; rookies were making sudden career changes while veterans of the force were an...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Murder in Focus

    Medora Sale

    Sent to Ottawa to attend a seminar on anti-terrorism in advance of a trade summit, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders has nothing more on his mind than getting through the tiresome sessions. But from his first encounter with Harriet Jeffries, an a...

  • 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...

  • The Apple Pie Adventure

    Cynthia Blair

    Identical twins Chris and Susan Pratt head to the Big Apple for college, thrilled that they’re embarking on the biggest adventure of their lives.  But when Susan’s paintings catch the eye of a SoHo gallery owner, they find themselves thrust ...

  • 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 Bowstring Murders

    Carter Dickson

  • 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...

  • The Case of the Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve

    John R. Erickson

    Accompanying Slim and Little Alfred into town on a Christmas shopping trip, Hank and Drover run into a wounded buzzard and a gang of toughs so mean and heartless, they begin to wonder they'll ever make it back to the ranch. In this enhanced ebook, yo...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Truck Shot

    Jim Stinson

    Stoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at low-rent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion needed to keep the dying college alive, Stoney follows the murderer&rs...

  • 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...

  • Ex-Wife

    Ursula Parrott

    1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and never did. Nor, I suspect, does he. Nowadays, when the catastrophe that it seemed to be and its causes are matters equally inconsequential, I am increasin...

  • Mazes: 64 Essays

    Hugh Kenner

  • A Writer's Nightmare

    R.K. Narayan

  • Angelfire

    Linda Lael Miller

    Shocked by the threat of an arranged marriage to an aging magistrate, Bliss Stafford fled through the rugged New Zealand countryside. But chance--and the barrel of her father's pistol--wed her to Jamie McKenna, a handsome, headstrong rancher whose bo...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Jennie

    Jane Claypool Miner

    She has lost everything in the great flood -- except her courage. Swept away in the murderous torrent of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, Jennie fights death--and wins. Now she must continue to fight for herself and her family by working as a telegrap...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Nationalists

    William Stuart Long

    A TIME OF WAR AND GLORY - A TIME FOR THE "NEW" AUSTRALIAN TO FORGE A WILD LAND INTO ONE UNITED STATE The days of exploration were over. Now cries of "Unlock the Land!" echoed from the outback to the cosmopolitan streets of Sydney. A young generati...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ... ...

  • Princess of Hanover

    Helene Lehr

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Silk Road

    Jeanne Larsen

    Set during the Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China, a sweeping fantasy tale of Greenpearl, kidnapped by Tibetan raiders, chronicles her dual quest--to learn the language of humans, and to find her long-lost mother...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Beastnights

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Beasts

    Stephen R. George

    The origin of the virus was unknown. The first symptom was a pang of unbearable sensitivity to light, followed by pain shooting through the hip. Then came fever. And finally, the hunger for blood. Uncontrollable, insatiable, it drove the infected to ...

  • Blood Dreams

    Jack MacLane

    When Hubert Carton, a meticulous cold blooded murderer plagued by chronic headaches, and Larry, a ten-year-old haunted by nightmares featuring people who then die in real life, meet, a ghastly terror is unleashed. Hubert is a killer. He loves the ...

  • 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...

  • Book of the Dead

    John Skipp

    Blood-draining tales by horror masters--including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, and David Schow--conjure the heinous deeds of the vengeful living dead, in a collection of Zombie stories...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Lurking

    Gary Gentile

    Gary Gentile’s seminal novel of supernatural horror that was first published asThe LurkingBased on actual legend, the story begins when the monster known as the Jersey Devil manifests itself in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey after the ...

  • The Missing Movie Creature

    Mary Anderson

    Cassie and Barney are cousins who have nothing in common except that both admit they've never seen a monster.. Cassie has been dumped in boarding schools all her life and she considers her poor nine-year-old cousin Barney Prescott to be a major wimp....

  • The New Girl

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself ...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? She's pale as a ghost, blonde and...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    Frank Lambirth

  • On My Honor

    Malacai Black

  • Party Line

    A. Bates

    Some talk. Some listen. Some disappear. Mark can't stop calling the Party Line. It's easier to talk to girls when nobody knows who you are. But something weird is going on. One by one girls are disappearing, and Mark is convinced it has somet...

  • 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. ...

  • The Priory

    Margaret Wasser

  • Resurrection Dreams

    Richard Laymon

    Haunted by memories of a deranged boy named Melvin, who attempted to bring a dead body back with power from a car battery, Vicki returns home years later and encounters Melvin, who, just released from the institution, has special--and horrifying--pla...

  • 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...

  • Tales by Moonlight II

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • Quality of Mercy

    Faye Kellerman

    Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England--yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso--a Jew who practices her prohibited religion cl...

  • Knight of the Living Dead

    Allen Varney
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  • Among the Eagles

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Blood Brothers

    Gary McCarthy

    A FATAL FRIENDSHIP Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as night and day. A miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son of Ulysses Kilbane, a professional gambler and t...

  • Dark Canyon

    Bill Reno

  • The Feleen Brand

    Will Henry

    Hush Feleen came out of the Tennessee Mounta ins with his folks. Texas was a wide, strange place to him, but Hush walked tall and spoke softly - until they lynched h is father. Then he swore that the whole damn country was goi ng to bow to Hush Felee...

  • Fool's Coach

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Incident at Pishkin Creek

    Gary D. Svee

  • Killer's Crossing and the Drifter

    Burt Arthur

  • 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...

  • Longarm and the Outlaw Sheriff

    Tabor Evans

  • Mesabi Huntdown

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • Outlaw Deputy

    Peter Field

  • Rogue's Gold

    W.W. Lee

  • The Slavers

    F.M. Parker

    Running from the deadly repercussions of accidentally killing a man, Ken Larrway finds sanctuary in the uneasy, doomed colony of Janus, where polygamy and death are common, and a gunslinger never rests easy...

  • Slocum and the Outlaw's Trail

    Jake Logan

    A BLOODY STAGECOACH AMBUSH is nothin' out of the ordinary on the Texas range. But there's something strange about the masked kid---who kills only one of the passengers without even bothering to rob the others! It's downright peculiar. Then, when S...

  • Stop

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Tall Timber

    Dirk Fletcher

    Thompson Lumber Comapny was the biggest logging operation in Oregon,but someone was sabotaging their shipments and equipment, and stray bullets had left two people dead - on of them a government inspector. That's when the Secret Service called in Spu...

  • The Whiskey Runners

    Justin Ladd

    Bethany Hale arrives in Abilene preaching an anti-alcohol message, and soon three people, have died from poisoned liquor, but Deputy Cody Fisher determines someone's using poison to drive moonshiners out of business...

  • Midnight Heiress

    Kate Frederick

    SHE HAD INHERITED A LEGACY OF TERROR! As a child, Barbara dreamed that someday she would marry a rich man, a nobleman, a prince who would sweep her away from her dreary life as the ward of her eccentric Aunt Martha. But as a young woman, she knew ...

  • Mountain of Fear

    Rona Randall

    Original title: Silent Thunder. A frightened girl probes into the past to find the secret that doomed her to a bizarre and sinister future. Margaret Buchanan seeks to learn the terrifying secret nestled in the ancient Cleft of Fenris, a quest m...

  • 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 ...