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New Books List: 494 titles

  • 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...

  • The Abyss

    Orson Scott Card

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ambition

    Julie Burchill

  • Among the Eagles

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Amy Loves the Snow

    Julia Hoban

  • Andi's War

    Billi Rosen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • Arabesques II

    Susan Shwartz

  • Arjun

    Sunil Gangopadhyay

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bad Break

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Bad Voltage

    Jonathan Littell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Batman

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Before the Dawn

    Mickey Block

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Blood Tells

    Stephen Robertson

  • 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 ...

  • Bloodletters and Badmen - Book #2

    Jay Robert Nash

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Bowstring Murders

    Carter Dickson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Business Careers

    Robert H Luke

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • By Death Possessed

    Roger Ormerod

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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--...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Casting Fortune

    John M. Ford

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Current Confusion

    Kitty Grey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Darci in Cabin 13

    Martha Tolles

  • Dark Canyon

    Bill Reno

  • Dark Tapestry

    Anna James

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dead Clever

    Roderic Jeffries

  • 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 ...

  • Dead Men Don't Marry

    Dorothy Sucher

  • Deadly Score

    Paul Myers

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Deliver Us From Evil

    Stephen Smoke

  • 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 ...

  • The Desert of Love

    Francois Mauriac

  • 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 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...

  • Devil's Plunder

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Disney's Christmas Stories

    Walt Disney

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Dragons of Komako

    John Gregory Betancourt

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Elements of Celtic Tradition

    Caitlin Matthews

  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo

    T.H. White

    “THERE’S AN ANGEL IN THE CHIMNEY!â€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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    Minette Marrin

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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-...

  • 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...

  • Far Harbor

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Fire Horse

    Denis M. Way

  • 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...

  • Fool's Coach

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Fortress

    Colin Wilson

  • 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...

  • Fowl-filcher

    Ranga Rao

  • The Frankincense Trail

    Frank Kenmore

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fulton County

    James Goldman

  • The Further Adventures of Batman

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Game of Survival

    Dian Curtis Regan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Giants of Elena

    Robyn Tallis

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 God Machine

    Martin Caidin

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Guest of Honor

    Irving Wallace

    U.S. President Matthew Underwood is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of tiny Lampang, falls in love, and becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics to the detriment of his own career...

  • Half Child

    Kathleen Hersom

    Gr 5-7-- When Sarah is born, it is her older sister Lucy who takes to her from the start. The rest of the family, goaded on by the villagers, concludes that Sarah, who is different from other children, must be a changeling child left by the fairies a...

  • Happy Endings

    David Cook

  • 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....

  • Harold's Runaway Nose

    Harriet Sonnenschein

  • 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...

  • Hayballs

    Peter Tinniswood

  • 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...

  • 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...