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New Books List: 501 titles

  • Armageddon Mode

    Keith Douglass

    GLOBAL HOSTILITIES. NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. It's one of the Pentagons most dreaded doomsday scenarios come terrifyingly true: The Far East streaks past the flash point when India launches a preemptive strike against Islamic Pakistan. Nuclear host...

  • Avenging Storm

    Duncan Long

  • Colors of Hell

    Don Pendleton

    YOUNG BLOOD Hunting season never closes on the mean streets of San Francisco's Hunter's Point -- a hellzone of violent crime, crack shacks and teenage triggermen. Here, modern gang war means strafing school yards with machine-gun fire. The innoce...

  • Eagle Station

    Mark Berent

    For the fighter pilots, tanker drivers, and other pilots with reason to navigate in northern Laos, there are few pieces of real estate more valuable than Eagle Station and its radar. Now Eagle Station is in danger of being overrun, though by whom is ...

  • Green Shadows, White Whale

    Ray Bradbury

    In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable s...

  • Mummy's Curse

    Megan Stine

  • Sahara

    Clive Cussler

    A CIVIL WAR GUNBOAT THAT VANISHED IN 1865...A WORLD FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN AVIATRIX WHO DISAPPEARED IN 1931...A DEADLY TIDE OF POISON THAT THREATENS THE WORLD WITH DOOM! 1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted...

  • Sharpe's Devil

    Bernard Cornwell

    AN HONORED VETERAN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. LT COLONEL RICHARD SHARPE IS DRAWN INTO A DEADLY BATTLE, BOTH O LAND AND ON THE HIGH SEAS 1820--Richard Sharpe, a peaceful farmer since Waterloo, comes out of retirement to undertake a perilous mission. H...

  • Storm Burst

    Don Pendleton

    DOOMSDAY COUNTDOWN An Arab conspiracy backed by Soviet firepower has launched an all-out strike against the U.S. with a massive wave of terrorist atrocities. The President has sanctioned Mack Bolan, Phoenix Force and Able Team, America's elite ant...

  • Thief River Falls Run

    David Robbins

  • The War of the Sky Lords

    John Brosnan

    Jan Dorvin, the Minervan, has overthrown the power of no less than five of the mighty airship colonies known as the Sky Lords that once terrorized the Earth and destroyed her people. Now, under her rule, the Lord Montcalm, the Lord Matamoros, the Pe...

  • War of the Sun

    Mack Maloney

    After expelling the neo-Nazi armies from the lands east of the Rockies, the United American forces, led by fighter pilot Hawk Hunter, must free the war-blackened West Coast, still under the rule of the enemy. Original....

  • Warrior's Edge

    Don Pendleton

    KNIGHT STALKER A small African nation comes under siege when its president and his cabinet are kidnapped by a band of ruthless guns for hire. Their leader is a glory-seeking, modern-day Teutonic warrior who wields a machine pistol instead of a sword....

  • The Way of the Warrior (Part 2)

    Ken Kato

    When the Xanadu Kan occupation of the planet Osumi sends desperate Amerikan refugees to the dying Fort Baker, merchant prince Ellis Straker must gamble on a suicide raid to capture a starship and seek reinforcements. Original....

  • The Dante Game

    Jane Langton

    IN MAGNIFICENT, MYSTERIOUS FLORENCE, HOMER KELLY DISCOVERS A CITY AS CORRUPT AND DEADLY TODAY AS IT WAS IN DANTE'S TIME Sleuthing Harvard Professor Homer Kelly has come to Italy to teach at the struggling American School for Florentine Studies. Wh...

  • Deservedly Dead

    B.J. Oliphant

    THE OLD JEWELL PLACE HAS FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS. The new owner has drained the wetlands, poisoned the scrub, destroyed the wildlife; and the screaming machines are still at it. Neighbor Shirley McClintock is just about ready to kill. So when the inev...

  • Double Minded Men // Vineyard Deceit

    Philip R. Craig

    Chaos is in the salt-imbued air as a Middle Eastern potentate and his entourage descend upon Martha's Vineyard--to reclaim ceremoniously an emerald necklace stolen from their nation a century earlier. Though Jeff Jackson would rather be fishing with ...

  • Drover and the Zebras

    Bill Granger

    ON THE LINE Jimmy Drover's alma mater finally has a Dream Team--a cinch to make the Final Four. But rumors of fixed games, point-shaving and recruitment violations suggest that basketball has turned ugly at St. Mary's. And the mysterious "suicide" o...

  • Endangered Species

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Undercover in the African wild with their father, Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation that could have something to do with a missing U.S. Customs official. Original....

  • Finishing Touch // Murder in the Morning

    Betty Rowlands

    Melissa Craig is a successful crime novelist who has left the hurly-burly of London to pursue her craft more single-mindedly in the Cotswolds. But the gentle country existence she planned for herself is instead fuelling her pen. Finishing Touch fi...

  • Gone to the Dogs

    Susan Conant

    THROWN A BONE--BY A KILLER Holly Winter's a Dog's Life columnist on the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing out crime and corruption on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog's best friend--and murder's worst enemy.... If...

  • I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia

    Gillian Roberts

    Amanda Pepper, the resourceful English teacher at Philly Prep, is sorting books for a school fund-raiser when she discovers a secondhand volume from an unknown donor --a book for and about battered women. As Amanda peruses the book, she realizes that...

  • The Legend of Miner's Creek

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FINDS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO BE A LAND OF BREATHTAKING BEAUTY AND HEART-STOPPING MYSTERY Carson Drew's old friend Charlie Griffin has invited Nancy and her friends to his 800-acre Highland Retreat in the Cascade Mountains. But the sheer pl...

  • Murder Most Mellow

    Jaqueline Girdner

    After a messy homicide case involving her "ex" and a break-up with her new boyfriend, Kate decides to tap into some positive energy by hosting a support group--in the hot tub, of course. It's the perfect California scene. Until one of her New Age pal...

  • Murder Takes Two

    Bernie Lee

    An unexpected trip to recording studios in London for advertising writer Tony Pratt and his wife, Pat, sounded fun and exciting - in spite of the rather off-the-wall bunch they'd be dealing with. The entourage included a depressed account executive...

  • Swiss Secrets

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy, Bess, and George are off on a continental adventure into the gorgeous heart of Europe: Switzerland. And gorgeous is just the word for jet-setter Franz Haussman, who invites the girls out for a night of dancing at a chic club on the shores of L...

  • The Trouble With Too Much Sun

    Camilla T. Crespi

    It's January, and Simona considers herself lucky to shoot HH&H's ad campaign for a new sun product on the sandy beaches of a Club Med on Guadeloupe where she plans to sneak in the R&R she badly needs. Instead Simona finds a lost two-year-old ...

  • Becky's Brainstorm

    Elaine L. Schulte

    To help her mom out financially and prevent the family from moving, Becky and her three best friends start The Twelve Candles Club, a business providing child care, housekeeping, car washing, and other services...

  • The Bounty Hunter

    Marian Flandrick Bray

    Although she knows that the wolverine invading her part of the San Gabriel Mountains is dangerous and destructive, twelve-year-old Reba Castillo decides to try to save it from the bounty hunter seeking to kill it....

  • A Covenant of Love

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Homecoming

    Ruth Livingston-Hill

    As a young girl, Jan Nielson faced a tug-of-war between two worlds. Her widowed father was determined to raise his daughter on his own in a dirty, yellow-brick boarding house in Chester--while a hard-hearted, rich aunt coveted the small child and des...

  • The I. L. Peretz Reader

    I.L. Peretz

  • Jess and the Fireplug Caper

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Letters to a Devastated Christian

    Gene Edwards

  • Man of Peace

    Michael Youssef

  • A Thorn in the Heart

    Tim Stafford

    Who would possibly want to murder a handicapped teenager and his three friends from the Lambs School? That’s what Frank Hager, the father of one of the missing boys, wonders when he realizes his son, Robbie, has been missing ever since he left a lo...

  • Almost a Bride

    Raye Morgan

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO RAFE TENNYSON: Women--who needs 'em? All they do it get pregnant and trap us men into marrying them. Thank goodness I talked my brother out of marrying that Kendall McCormick! She'd ruin his life for sure. But I wonder what ...

  • Alone at Last

    Rita Rainville

    EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY Social worker Katie Donovan was tired of being the world's caretaker. She'd spent her whole life giving, but no more. Her current mission in life was to become footloose and fancy-free, and her plans certainly didn't inclu...

  • The Barefooted Enchantress

    Ann Major
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    Actress Tamara Howard owed her life to a rogue. He'd appeared on set in Scotland, rescued her from a runaway horse and stolen a kiss. Then he'd vanished, until an ancient portrait told his tale: Sir Ramsay Macintyre, died 1587. Was Tamara being encha...

  • Best Man for the Job

    Dixie Browning

    MR. JUNE Groom: Rex Ryder's teenage brother, a bad boy young enough not to know better. Bride: Carrie Lanier's teenage sister, who obviously hasn't learned from Carrie's mistakes -- especially when it comes to the Ryder men. We...

  • Beyond the Night

    Christine Flynn

    Mitchell Kincaid had spent his life racing about after reckless pleasure. The fly-by-night pilot never gave a damn about the things other people thought mattered: home, hearth...and love. His days were spent on the run, until the moment his thunderin...

  • Blossoming Love

    Deborah Davis

    "I'm not one-hundred-percent gentleman.... " Alexandra wasn't sure if Jay's warning was a threat -- or a promise! Still, sharing a handsome stranger's bed certainly wasn't how Alex had envisioned the start of her month&...

  • The Case of the Confirmed Bachelor

    Diana Palmer

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO NICK REED: My sister thinks I should. But what can I say? I'm a private eye and I like excitement, change. I get bored hanging around a place for long. That kind of attachment - marriage...no, definitely not for me... MARRIA...

  • The Cinderella Game

    Sheri Cobb South

    When Wendy Miller lands a summer job as a seamstress for America's Teen Beauty Pageant she is thrilled. Then handsome Spencer Fife mistakes her for one of the contestants and sweeps her off her feet. Though Wendy wants to tell him the truth, she can'...

  • Cody's Last Stand

    Kathy Clark

    WILD WEST He had the wildness of the prairie in his eyes. The gentleness of a lover in his lips. And on that fateful day at Little Big Horn, Cody took Elizabeth Lawrence captive without firing a shot. Elizabeth searched high and low for the rav...

  • Coercion to Love

    Michelle Reid

    The choice was hers... . Cassandra Marlow would cross the earth to protect her young niece from the father who didn't deserve her. Unfortunately, Carlo Valenti was one step ahead of her. But Cass wouldn't give up her niece without a fig...

  • Daddy's Girl

    Barbara Bretton

    ONE MAN AND A BABY Hunter Phillips never thought he'd fall in love, but when he saw her honey blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and adoring smile, his heart melted. Only problem was, she was eight months old. The niece he'd inherited certainly c...

  • A Day in April

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A YOUNG GIRL'S SHAME... Beth Melbourne was only seventeen, hovering on the brink of womanhood, when her life was shattered. Tainted and ashamed, she fled Shawnee, Louisiana, leaving behind the hope-filled innocence of youth. A WOMAN'S DR...

  • Designs on Love

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Always the seamstress, never the bride... Bridal-gown designer Devon Fleming yearned for more. She was especially tired of being a "good girl" and dating respectable, boring men. Then daring, sexy foreign correspondent Tristan Parrish stormed into...

  • Diamonds Are Forever

    Linda Varner

    GEMINI MAN Confirmed bachelor Tom Wright was a typically fickle Gemini man. His "type" was whatever woman he wasn't with! And when Tom first met Jilly Sullivan at a local ball game, he was sure one date would be enough to dispel the attraction that f...

  • Dreamboat of the Western World

    Tracy Sinclair

    Drop-dead handsome, filthy rich, scandalously sexy Granger McMasters always had his pick of Beverly Hills beauties. So why was the legendary lover suddenly turning his thousand-watt charm on his lowly landscaper and her feisty, fatherless little girl...

  • East of the Moon

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE HAD THE WRONG PARCEL When Sarah Branson collided with a handsome stranger on the sidewalk of a busy Hong Kong market street, packages went flying. Now the gift she had bought for her young daughter was missing. In its place was a leather dog ...

  • Facade

    Roxanne Pulitzer

    Wealth, luxury, privilege -- they have it all in Palm Beach. The glittering society -- knowing what really matters is keeping old money in and new money out. But behind the carefully cultivated facades of social standing and respectability, self-indu...

  • Father Goose

    Marie Ferrarella

    FATHER... When policeman Del Santini pulled over a speeding van, he was prepared for excuses -- not for delivering a baby! But as the tiny infant came into the world, she stole his heart.... BABY... Being born was scary, but cradled in Del's...

  • Final Surrender

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    The heat is on... Sorcha Riordan and Rui de Braganca were complete strangers--but they both inherited half of the same business. Sorcha had fifty-one percent and she knew nothing about running a company. Rui de Braganca did, and he had been lef...

  • Freshman Wedding

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will Melissa and Brooks finally make it to the altar? Winnie and Josh promised each other to abandon their outrageous ways. But their plan only leads to their wildest stunt ever! KC ditched her friends to run with wild Marielle. Where will KC t...

  • Goody Two-Shoes

    Vivian Leiber

    IN THIS CORNER... The top two Chicago Daily News columnists were about to square off. In high heels and pearls: perky Sabrina Murray, debutante and author of a heartwarming human-interest column. In anything but a suit: gruff Drew Carlson, realist...

  • A Heart Divided

    Lee Stafford

    To the manor born Cordelia Harris thought she'd been the bearer of good news. But Gil Montero had been adamant--he wasn't interested in any inheritance and he certainly had no intention of abandoning his home in the Spanish mountains to ta...

  • Hearts of Glass

    Nicole Jeffords

    Charlie, Musette, and Gwen, three beautiful, wealthy, and famous women, face their greatest demons when they join Alcoholics Anonymous and confront the devastating secrets that make them drink. Reprint....

  • His Father's House

    Elizabeth Krueger

    HOME WAS CALLING HIM BACK... The people of Baxter, Missouri, had never forgiven Briant McCullough. He'd been their brightest star, their gifted son, the youngest pillar of their small community. Then he'd been unjustly accused of embezzlement and...

  • The House of Real Love

    Carla Tomaso

  • I Do!

    Olivia Rupprecht

    SOL--He Promised Her Forbidden Pleasures.... He'd nearly died in a foreign land, and in a moment of madness he'd married the woman whose letters had given him a reason to live. But when Sol Standish faced his bride for the first time, he knew he ...

  • The Impersonator

    Diana Hammond

    A renowned scholar, a lonely divorce+a7e, a senatorial candidate, and others fall prey to the seductive powers of Theo Buckley, whose scandalous death is merely a prelude to an international drama. Reprint....

  • Intimate View

    Diane Pershing

    BEN--A Fierce Gladiator Who Wanted Her as His Prize... He'd stopped to watch a sunset, and instead was spellbound by a goddess who rose from the ocean and enchanted his senses! Ben Kane had resented being shipped off to run a small California cabl...

  • Jessica Against Bruce

    Francine Pascal

    Will Jessica put herself in danger to spite Bruce? When Bruce Patman complains that things at Sweet Valley High have gotten too boring, Jessica Wakefield agrees. Then Bruce starts a secret club to liven things up. Soon Club X has Sweet Valley High...

  • Jewels

    Danielle Steel

    On Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday, memories take her back to New York  in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah  shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to  raise her spirits, until she meets ...

  • Jordan's Wife

    Lynda Trent

    It was as if Jordan were still alive... Jordan King had given his life to save his wife's, and three years after his death, Glenna King was still as married to his memory as she had been to the man. Beau Fletcher--a newcomer to Sweet Gum, Texas--w...

  • Last Dance

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Happiness and heartbreak are in the air. Eight months have passed since that special, memorable SATURDAY NIGHT. Now it is time for the last dance of the year: Anne, wiser and more beautiful than ever, just wants to survive it. Beth Rose, mor...

  • Lean Mean Loving Machine

    Sandra Chastain

    GAVIN--A Tall, Dark, Reckless Stranger in Boots and Tight Jeans... He'd come to the small-town garage to make its owner an offer, but instead Gavin Magadan found himself the object of a sizzling wager! Stacy Lanham gasped when she realized she'd ...

  • The Leopard's Woman

    Linda Lael Miller
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    It was a "research'' trip to Baja, a trip that was supposed to be the next best thing to a vacation for Olivia Stillwell. There she was kidnapped and taken to the seaside domain of Estaban Ramirez...alias the Leopard. He intended to make Olivia his w...

  • Looking for Leo

    Gloria Nagy

  • Love Is a Risk

    Jennifer Taylor

    Honeymoon for one Even though Neeve Roberts had been left at the altar by her rotten fiance, she decided to go on her honeymoon. She didn't care that she'd be alone--she didn't want anything more to do with men. And she definitely didn...

  • Love on the Upbeat

    June O'Connell

    April Sullivan is sure she'll be miserable at music camp without her best friend. But her spirits begin to lift and camp looks like it will be great when handsome and charming Todd Barrett starts paying attention to her. Soon April is head over heals...

  • Love Rules

    Ann Charlton

    "We all need the kiss of life from time to time, angel, to revive us when the going gets tough." Trapped in a cellar with the dishiest man alive, Charlie Wells thought she had finally found the answer to her dreams -- only it soon transpired,...

  • Love Your Enemy

    Ellen James

    THE BRIDE LED THE ANTI-JARRETT PROTEST. THE GROOM WAS JARRETT! AND THE WEDDING? There's only one possible outcome when an immovable object meets an irresistible force.... Lindy Macallister's battle to protect a small colony of burro...

  • Married to the Enemy

    Ann Major

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO JONATHAN McBRIDE: My first marriage almost destroyed me. I swore I'd never live with a woman again--then I met Stormy. Her father offered me the ranch I'd always wanted . . . if I'd marry his daughter. Was the price too high?...

  • A Matter of Privilege

    Lorna Michaels

    Stephanie and Reed Stephanie Barrett, investigative reporter, was hot on the trail of a fraud scandal at the Madison Foundation, a Texas charity. When she fell in love with foundation head Reed Madison, she was torn. How could she expose Reed and hi...

  • McConnell's Bride

    Naomi Horton

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO CHASE McCONNELL: As far as I'm concerned, one marriage was enough! But my daughter Sarah is depending on me, and I don't want to lose custody of her. I know blackmailing a stranger into marrying me isn't right, but I'm desperat...

  • The Mighty Quinn

    Candace Schuler

    Trouble in Paradise Mike Quinn-- Ex-firefighter, ex-heavy-rescue expert. Present failure. Hana Jamieson-- Cool headed, warmhearted doctor. She needed a man she could rely on, not a devil-may-care drifter. People called Mike Quinn a hero, but...

  • Monkey Wrench

    Nancy Martin

    WELCOME TO TYLER EVERYONE'S HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Christmas is coming to Tyler. Share a cup of eggnog and the warm holiday cheer of America's favorite hometown. THE CARPENTER AND THE CELEBRITY Joe Santori, Tyler's resident contractor, is loud, c...

  • Mr. Wonderful

    Linda Jenkins

    SAM -- He Was the Perfect Combination of Cowboy and Cool... He was furious when Trina Bartok showed up at his Ozarks resort, convinced the gorgeous brunette was just the latest candidate in his father's endless matchmaking, but it took Sam Wo...

  • Never Kiss a Stranger

    Meryl Sawyer

    LOVE'S VALIANT LEGACY Stunned by two recent betrayals, blue blood Janna Atherton-Pembroke seeks a new life on the enchanting island of Malta with her beloved aunt Pithany. Reluctantly attracted to Nick Jensen, a rugged Texan propelled to the Medi...

  • New Lease on Love

    Shannon Waverly

    The right signals -- the wrong woman? Chelsea Lawton had never met a man who "rattled her teeth" with just a glance. Not until Nick Tanner. Nick and his adorable young daughter, Katie, were the stuff of fantasies--thrilling fantasies ...

  • Night of the Dark Moon

    Paula Detmer Riggs
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    It started out as just a favor to a friend.... Next thing rancher Quinn Sinclair knew, he was escaping through the Hawaiian jungles with photographer Anne Oliver. She was part of the Witness Protection Program--but what would protect her from Quinn's...

  • No Limit to Love

    Kate Freiman

    SHE WANTED A CHALLENGE Lisa Sutton jumped at the chance to prove she was good enough as an engineer to manage a construction project in British Columbias breathtaking Okanagan Valley It was a dream come true for a woman who hated the word can't. D...

  • Not His Wedding!

    Suzanne Simms

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO ROSS ST. CLAIR: Marriage? Me? Never! The minute a woman connects my name to the family fortune, wedding bells begin to ring...for her! But I'm immune to marriageable women--even if they are cool, chic blondes with long, slee...

  • One Perfect Rose

    Emilie Richards

    The woman was impossible! Wealthy businessman Jase Millington knew a challenge when he saw one--and Becca Hanks was his biggest challenge yet. She'd had more than her share of bad luck, and all he wanted was to help her. But she was so proud that she...

  • Out of Nowhere

    Patricia Wilson

    She wasn't welcome! Emma Shaw had escaped an uncomfortable situation by fleeing to Credlestone Hall, her uncle's isolated home in Dartmoor. But when she arrived late one foggy night, her uncle wasn't there. Another man was. A man named...

  • Outcast Woman

    Lucy Gordon

    Whispered rumors swirled like the bitter snow sweeping the desolate moors, cloaking Kirsty Trennon in scandal. Two men dead for love of her, the villagers grumbled, while she, notorious wanton, still cast her fatal enchantments. And now the shameless...

  • Past Loving

    Penny Jordan

    WHY HAD HE RETURNED? It was over ten years ago since Holly, a naive girl still in her teens, had fallen for Robert Graham and had assumed that his intentions were more long-term than just an affair. She had been bitterly disillusioned. Robert had ...

  • Playing Games

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Princess of the Veil

    Helen Mittermeyer

    SHE WAS A GODDESS OF FIRE AND ICE.... A mysterious Viking princess, Iona hid her beauty behind a veil, vowing never to put herself at the mercy of any man. Skilled both in battle and the healing arts, she sailed a fleet of ships across the treache...

  • Pure Instinct

    Ellen Fletcher

    CINDERELLA'S LAST STAND Amie Phillips felt out of place among the wealthy guests who twirled through the grandest ballroom in Charlotte. As an advocate for the homeless, she spent her days soliciting donations from these people and trying to find ...

  • The Right Man for Loving

    Kristina Logan

    ONCE MORE...WITH FEELING Was there no escaping her high school nemesis, Michael Stafford? Elizabeth Palmer had had her first run-in with the football hero when he'd tried to kiss her-and she'd bopped him in the nose. Now he was back, vying for the...

  • Saturday Night

    Caroline B. Cooney

    This was no ordinary Saturday night. Five girls. They couldn't have been more different, but they shared a common dream -- a perfect Saturday night at the Autumn Leaves Dance. For each of them, the night meant something different: It was a chanc...

  • Scruples II

    Judith Krantz

    Scruples, Judith Krantz's  electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen  years ago and made book publishing history. Now  that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era,  a story that millions of r...

  • Second Thoughts

    Dana Lindsey

    For better and...for worse Katherine had felt thoroughly stifled as the socialite wife of Mitch Woods. She'd needed a partner, not a keeper. It broke her heart to leave, but she had to-or suffocate. Katherine made a new life for herself. She'd sta...

  • Secret Lives

    Regan Forest

    It wasn't possible! Dave Andrews was all too familiar with secrets -- after all, he was living on the Riviera under an assumed identity. But when he fell under beautiful Renie Lloyd's, he was in a situation he couldn't even begin to un...

  • The Side of the Angels

    Leona Blair

    Kate Ballard, a strong, independent woman, finds herself strangely drawn to Polly, her indomitable grandmother, the power behind her lusty husband, a senator from South Carolina, and a woman who wants to relive her life through Kate. Reprint....

  • Silent Sam's Salvation

    Myrna Temte

    Yahoo! Single mother Dani Smith had found herself a true-blue guy to depend on. So what if she had to move from Chicago to Wyoming to claim the good-lookin' son of a gun? She had nothing to lose but loneliness. Trouble was, it turned out the strong, ...

  • Silver Waves

    Vella Munn

    BROTHER OR LOVER? To Dan Cox, he was an absentee father. To Kara Hunter, he was the soul of paternal love. Now Dan feared that his father was playing Cupid from beyond the grave. Coinheriting Joseph Cox's estate with Kara infuriated Dan. How da...

  • Slow Burn

    Cindy Gerard

    ADAM--The Tough Renegade Whose Secrets She Longed to Uncover... He was a wanderer, a stray whose troubled gaze barely hid his anger and despair, but Joanna Taylor knew -- she'd offer Adam Dursky the handyman job at her Minnesota lodge. Drawn ...

  • Special Effects

    Jo Leigh

    LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION.. . When Catlin Clark arrived in Natchez, Mississippi, to assist the producer of a TV movie, she was impressed by the way the locale had been transformed to resemble the Civil War era. Storefronts had been painted in the sty...

  • Summer Lover

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    GRAY -- He Made Her Blood Run Like Wildfire.... He sat across the desk from Donna Mailer, aching with a need to erase the distress in her beautiful eyes, but Gray Kincaid had no idea how much his family had done to destroy the lady's life! Stu...

  • Sunflower

    Margot Dalton

    Was she ready for the wild West? Robin Baldwin couldn't believe she'd become the half owner of a fabulous rodeo horse--Sunflower. But Sunflower came with strings attached. To take possession, Robin would have to travel the rodeo circuit with rough...

  • There Is a Season

    Phyllis Houseman

    ON SHAKY GROUND While working near the crater of an active volcano, ecologist Beth Cristie was pleased to find signs of life along the ash-covered landscape. From tiny ants to shiny green ferns, nature had survived the eruption of Mount St. Helens...

  • This Old House

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    SPECIALTY OF THE HOUSE Devlin Grant and Megan Abernathy wed in a fever of passion. A short time later, they divorced in a fit of fury. No one would have dared to bring them together again.... Except a woman who'd had an even more notorious past...

  • True to the Fire

    Suzanne Carey

    THE FIRE WITHIN Miranda Burton's life was in the United States, but her roots were thousands of miles away on the tropical island of La Caridad. And she could hardly refuse a plea for help in her father's homeland's desperate struggle ...

  • Unfinished Business

    Nora Roberts

    COULD HE HEAL HER BROKEN HEART? What was she doing here? Hyattown had changed very little in the years Vanessa Sexton had been away. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hadn't changed much either - he was still lean, athletic, ...

  • Vendetta Bride

    Rebecca King

    An indecent proposal Revenge, by the ruthless standards of Alex Baresi, was sweetest when it involved kissing the lips of a beautiful woman. Especially when Lori had no choice but to agree to his demands if she wanted to save her family's busi...

  • Wake to Darkness

    Blythe Stephens

    SOMEONE 'WANTED HER DEAD... . Curt Macklin found her crumpled on the sand in the blazing desert sun--a beautiful woman who'd been wounded by a bullet and left to die. With uncharacteristic tenderness, the rugged ex-cop nursed her at his cabin hide...

  • The Wakefield Legacy

    Francine Pascal

    Follow the compelling stories of the women and men who came before Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield: Frontiersman Theodore Wakefield thought he'd lost his heart forever; will Dancing Wind make him love again? Turn -of-the-century beauty Sarah Wa...

  • The Wedding

    Emma Darcy

    It was time out of time First, Tessa discovered her fiance in bed with another woman. Then she arrived at work to discover she'd been assigned to go on a three-day conference with the managing director. It would be a miracle if she didn'...

  • When Somebody Loves You

    Trisha Alexander

    The agony .. . His beloved brother's tragic accident reeled renegade Neil Cantrelle in from exile, back to the Louisiana bayou and face-to-face with Laura Sebastian. From the moment he saw her, he coveted this woman his brother hoped to wed... . ...

  • Whirlpool

    Madeleine Ker

    "Old lovers make very good advisers." Or so Kirby Waterford's friends told her. However, Kirby--widowed a year earlier--wasn't sure she could trust Damian Holt's advice . . . or his motives. Damian was a wildly successful bu...

  • Whispered Heat

    Anna Eberhardt

    CAPTIVATING INNOCENCE From the moment Lissa Jamison first saw Slader Reems, she knew they belonged to each other. The tenderhearted boy sparked her youthful infatuation, but the wild and wounded young man he became lit a blazing hunger within her. T...

  • Winter of Dreams

    Susan Napier

    Cold Front If it hadn't been for an outrageous act by her twin sister, Olivia Marlow would never have been considered for the prized Pendragon commission. And the New Zealand artist would never have set eyes on Jordan Pendragon again, the man fate...

  • Without Warning

    Ann Williams

    Love never forgotten... SETTLING THE SCORE For ten agonizing years, Blair Mallory mourned Michael Baldwin's tragic death, grieving for the love that had died with him. Then, from out of the shadows, Michael mysteriously stepped back into her li...

  • Yesterday and Forever

    Sandra Marton

    An indecent proposal...! Daniel Thorpe was tall, dark, and gorgeous, with money to burn. And from the first moment he saw Miranda Stuart -- naked! -- he knew she was going to be trouble... and that he wanted her whatever the cost! Miranda migh...

  • Death Is Forever

    John E. Gardner

    The Cold War is over. But when two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members...

  • Back to the Time Trap

    Keith Laumer

    As superbeings from the end of time struggle for control of the universe with aliens from another galaxy, Roger and his friends find themselves face to face with history's bad guys in their quest to return to their own time. Original....

  • The Captives of Kaag

    Joe Dever

    Lone Wolf must undertake a dangerous mission to Kaag--an isolated, fortress-like city that boasts a bloodthirsty population of ex-soldiers--to rescue his friend, Banedon, who is being held captive. Original....

  • The Door to Ambermere

    J. Calvin Pierce

    A down-on-his-luck gambler swings through a barroom door and finds himself in a tavern of the magical realm of Ambermere, where he must rescue a kidnapped princess and return to his home before a demon from Ambermere destroys the earth...

  • Dreamships

    Melissa Scott

    A thought-provoking examination of the possibility of artificial intelligence. Reverdy Jian, a freelance dreamspace pilot based on Persephone (an arid world so hot the population lives underground), and her partners Imre Vaughn and Red take on a job ...

  • The Fallible Fiend

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Ordered to spend a year's servitude on the human plane, Zdim the demon, a mild-mannered scholar of logic and philosophy, becomes the city of Ir's last chance when a barbarian armada threatens to attack. Reprint....

  • Far-Seer

    Robert J. Sawyer

    In a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, the young saurian Afsan becomes apprentice to the court astrologer, when he discovers something about the Face of God that will test his faith and may save his world from disaster. Original....

  • Fire Queen

    Jack Holland

  • The Forever Machine

    Mark Clifton

    The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Reasearch trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility--create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic--and immortal. "Full of ex...

  • The Gypsy

    Steven Brust; Megan Lindholm

    Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gy...

  • Hall of Whispers

    Mike Jefferies

    Marrimian, a kind, fair-minded leader, claims her right to the throne when her father dies, but the people fear starvation and begin a revolution lead by Marrimian's bitter younger sister, Pinvey. Original....

  • Kingslayer

    L. Dean James

    Gaylon Reysson has regained his throne, but new challenges await him. As the first magic-wielding king to rule Wynnamyr in more than a millennium, he must take up the mystical blade, Kingslayer, so named because it has twice killed its royal masters....

  • The Lodge of the Lynx

    Katherine Kurtz; Deborah Turner Harris

    HE IS ETERNAL. SO ARE HIS FOES... Through countless lives and eras, the Adept has fought the powers of Darkness. Now, as psychiatrist Adam Sinclair, he leads his loyal Huntsmen against supernatural evil in all its myriad forms. But the Darkness...

  • Mirabile

    Janet Kagan

    On the distant planet of Mirabile, a settlement of human colonists from Earth is jeopardized by genetic mutants of Earth plants and animals, and it is up to ecological troubleshooter Mama Jason to destroy the menacing mutants. Reprint....

  • Promise

    Monica Hughes

    Princess Rania is forced to leave everything she loves when she is apprenticed to a desert-dwelling ascetic, but she soon develops a love for her new life that will conflict with her eventual return to the world....

  • Sails of Tau Ceti

    Michael McCollum

    Starhopper was humanity's first interstellar probe. It was designed to search for intelligent life beyond the solar system. Before it could be launched, however, intelligent life found Earth. The discovery of an alien light sail inbound at the edge o...

  • Wayfinder's Story

    Fred Saberhagen

    Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life for men to scramble over. But they forged too well; the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone and the Swords scattered, Wayfinder, the Sword ...

  • Wildfire

    Jo Clayton

    MAGIC'S CAPTIVE Return to the universe of Wild Magic, where rival gods, mischievous elementals, powerful sorcerers, clairvoyant sibyls and magical beings of all description play intricate games of power and wizardry. Forever separated from the on...

  • Aidan's Fate

    Jesse Harris

    After experiencing frightening visions of her boyfriend, Aidan, dying in a terrible automobile accident, psychic McKenzie sets out to help him avert his fate and, in the process, aids an abused ten-year-old boy. Original....

  • All on a Summer's Day

    Judy Gardiner

  • And Do You Remember Me

    Marita Golden

    "An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life." (St. Petersburg Times)In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1...

  • Antics!: An Alphabetical Anthology

    Cathi Hepworth

    An word-play alphabet book features such famous ants as Rembrant and Santa Claus thinking up fantastic, flamboyant puns for each for each letter of the alphabet. All ages....

  • Antiquity Street

    Sonia Rami

    Returning from her studies at Harvard to the home of her ailing father in Cairo, an Egyptian woman becomes infatuated with the handsome orderly attending to her father, a man who is secretly a homosexual prostitute...

  • Arabian Nights

    Husain Haddawy

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

    These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fir...

  • Ardent Apparitions

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    When Arabella's father banished the incomparable beauty from London society and sent her to live in an isolated castle, she was determined to find romance and adventure to compensate her for the forbidden pleasures of the ton. After all, there ha...

  • Aryan Legion

    William Sanders

  • The Ascent

    Jeff Long

  • B-Four

    Sam Hodges

    The debut novel by a Southern author is written with a wry, sweetly comic voice and a perceptive eye for looking at where the Old South meets the New. "Our newest comic genius . . . the funniest novel about the South since A Confederacy of Dunces."--...

  • Basic Instinct

    Robert Tine

  • Batman Returns

    Andrew Helfer

    It's Christmas in Gotham City... ...as a strange birdlike man called The Penguin emerges from the sewers below Gotham Plaza. He is joined by the mysterious feline creature known only as Catwoman, and the two embark on a campaign to get The Penguin e...

  • Batman Returns: The Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Be My Guest

    Rachel Ingalls

  • The Bear Who Loved Puccini

    Arnold Sundgaard

  • Bedtime

    Joan Stimson

  • Believe

    William Shatner

  • The Berlin Covenant

    Celeste Paul

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    David Lorne

    Unable to count on the police to protect him and his live-in lover from the psychopath who has been stalking them, Spike Halleck, a blind man, must rely only on his ears and his intelligence to outsmart the killer. ...

  • Blood Feud

    Elizabeth Quinn

    A Mafia princess and a lady cop...trapped in a vendetta of violence and love.

    A career-making case forces Toni Ross to face her Italian past, her teenaged son, and her needs as a woman, while pampered mobster's daughter Veronica turns state's ...

  • Blood Oath

    Robert Todaro

    Their family loyalties set best friends Mike Kelly and Johnny Sangremano on opposite sides of the law, and their friendship turns into a deadly rivalry as Mike becomes a federal agent determined to end the Mafia's reign of terror. Original....

  • Blood Ties

    Alexa Brix

    Sandy, an ambitious senator's aide, is used to bailing her lovable younger brother out of trouble, but this time, she is the one who needs to be saved from a vicious plot designed to expose her family secrets...

  • Boots and the Glass Mountain

    Claire Martin

    Exquisite, richly colored paintings highlight a retelling of an old Norse legend about Boots, the youngest of three brothers, who tames the trolls' wild horses and rides his horse to the top of a slippery glass mountain to win his beloved princess....

  • Brightness Falls

    Jay Mcinerney

    Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. As he maps the fault lines spreading through t...

  • The Buddy System

    Diane Ames

    The perfect summer... Everyone at Camp Kissamee thinks of Junior Counselor Lisa Siegel as a shy, insecure loner. But Lisa has a plan: She's going to be more outgoing, sing in the all-camp Revue, and get Michael Horst to notice her. The other J...

  • Bully Pulpit, the

    Andrew Goldblatt

    The next Democratic presidential candidate, Jack Morgan decides to campaign on a radical environmental platform, foresaking the media blitz of the campaign trail and sitting at home on his Ohio front porch for heart-to-hearts with the nation...

  • Bunny Runs Away

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Case of the Haunted Camp

    Francine Pascal

  • The Cat That Wasn't There

    Stella Whitelaw

    A collection of twenty-two cat tales introduces readers to Sam, who refuses to let death part him from his owner; RagBag, who gives his mistress the courage to end an unhappy marriage; and Felix, a stowaway cat....

  • Child's Year

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Ciao Sweet Valley!

    Francine Pascal

    Culture clash... Jessica Wakefield and her twin sister, Elizabeth, are looking forward to having an exchange student named Giovanna come live with them for three weeks. Jessica can't wait to show the Italian country girl all the great things ab...

  • City Of Boys

    Beth Nugent

    Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her dominee...

  • City of Gold

    Len Deighton

    In 1942 Cairo, escaped prisoner Jim Ross takes on the identity of his dead escort and finds himself searching for the spy in British Intelligence who is revealing top-secret data to Rommel and his German forces. Reprint....

  • Clairvoyant

    Alison Leslie Gold

    A moving recreation of the tortured life of Lucia Joyce, the schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, follows Lucia's struggle to survive despite the terrifying effects of this devastating mental illness....

  • Cousin Markie and Other Disasters

    Christel Kleitsch

  • Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid

    Alane Ferguson

  • Crossing Blood

    Nanci Kincaid

    Growing up in the south during the 1960s is difficult for Lucy Conyers, a young woman who lives in the white section of town and who harbors a forbidden obsession with Skippy, a young black man. 17,500 first printing....

  • Cruel Doubt

    Joe McGinniss

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fatal Vision comes a shocking true account of murder, family secrets, and final justice now available for the first time as an e-book...One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was ...

  • The Cut-Ups Crack Up

    James Marshall

  • Dakota Scouts

    Flynn J. Ell

    John Benson, a new scout for the army, sets out to trap Lone Deer, a cunning warrior of the Sioux, and his only hope in learning about the Sioux is a mysterious black man who had lived with the tribe....

  • Don't Be Afraid, Amanda

    Lilian Moore

  • Dreams of Long Lasting

    Mark Medoff

    Jacob Landau, an aspiring playwright, becomes locked in a self-destructive struggle between the demons of his past and his fear of the future. By the author of Children of a Lesser God. Reprint....

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    Peter Lefcourt

    Consider the possibilities: In the middle of a pennant race, a team's star shortstop falls in love with his second baseman. Which is exactly what happens to Randy Dreyfus, the best-hitting, best-fielding, best-looking, and most happily married you...

  • The Drummer Was the First to Die

    Liza Pennywitt Taylor

  • Duchess of Milan

    Michael Ennis

  • Dylan's Secret

    Megan Stine

  • The Easy Way Out

    Stephen McCauley

    Patrick O'Neil is a travel agent who never goes anywhere. His closestconfidante, Sharon, is chain-smoking her way to singles hell, passing up manafter man. His parents, proprietors of a suburban men's store whose fortunesare sagging more visibly than...

  • Elijah and Pin-Pin

    Raoul Millais

  • Emily Eyefinger

    Duncan Ball

    Born with an eye on the end of her finger, Emily is--despite the initial concerns of her parents--able to use this unique quality to do good deeds, such as finding lost objects and reforming the class bully....

  • Encino Man

    Nicholas Edwards

  • Ernie and His Merry Monsters and Other Good-Night Stories

    Michaela Muntean

  • Evelyn Waugh

    Christopher Sykes

  • The Evening Star

    Larry McMurtry

    The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star.McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one ...

  • The Falcon Bow: An Arctic Legend

    James Houston

  • Feminine Mistake

    Judith Ph.D. Posner

  • Fidelities

    Richard Hall

    A collection of short stories by the author of Family Fictions features tales of the constancy of lifelong gay relationships, in ethnicity, and in sexual enjoyment, including ""Diamonds Are Forever,"" ""The Cannibals,"" and ""Avery Milbanke D...

  • Firedrake's Eye

    Patricia Finney

    Brilliantly written in language eerily reminiscent of Elizabethan English, this novel is set in 16th-century England and concerns a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. When it was first published in 1992, the critics raved: "A talent for writing espionag...

  • For Love Alone

    Ivana Trump

    Dazzled by the glamour of her new life as the wife of American tycoon Adam Graham, Czechoslovakian-born champion skier Katrinka Graham is, nonetheless, unable to forget the anguish of her past--and the baby she left behind in Czechoslovakia. Re...

  • Fourth Little Pig

    Teresa Noel Celsi

  • Fun with ABCs

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Fun with Opposites

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Get

    Leslie McGuire

    Abigail, Melissa, and Julia--three friends with a common entrepreneurial bond--set out to make a killing tie-dyeing t-shirts and selling them in school, but a mischievous litter of Great Dane puppies could ruin their plans. Original....

  • The Ghost in the Bell Tower

    Francine Pascal

    When the Wakefield kids are invited to their aunt  Helen's country inn, Steven and Jessica are  determined to use the eerie old mansion to scare their  sister, Elizabeth, into believing in ghosts. But no  matter what Steve and Jessica do, log...