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  • Good Night, Lewis!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Chelaine

    Donna Comeaux Zide

    CHELAINE WAS A BOLD CANADIAN PATRIOT BATTLING THE BRITISH--AND HER OWN SOARING PASSION Chelaine boarded the Earl of Braden's ship as a prisoner, sworn never to reveal the vital secrets needed by the British to thwart her countrymen's cause. The ha...

  • Slow Boats Home

    Gavin Young

    In this, the sequel to Slow Boats to China (also reissued in Faber Finds), Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa. 'I am decidedly envious of Gavin You...

  • Safely to the Grave

    Margaret Yorke

    The Times' referred to this work as a superior psychothriller and it certainly lives up to the epithet. The central character is Mick Harvey, who has just been released after a spell in prison. He enjoys frightening people â€" it is his way of gainin...

  • Perfect 10

    Josephine Wunsch

    Jeremiah had built a stockade around himself... Lisa was determined to tear it down. It had become an obsession with her. Why did she have this crazy feeling that he needed her as much as she needed him? They had only exchanged a half-dozen words, ye...

  • Fox Hill

    Valerie Worth

    Recently orphaned by the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Lily goes to live with a grim aunt at an isolated country vicarage where she becomes increasingly obsessed by the ghostly presence of a mysterious young man....

  • A Kiss Away

    Sherryl Woods

    With her fortieth birthday looming, Jessica Warren vows to be both mature and physically fit. But her roguish new neighbor, Kevin Lawrence, stymies her on each count! Whether she's joylessly jogging or acting carefully cool, Kevin's playful goading.....

  • Most Deadly Hate

    Sara Woods

    MOST UN-MOTHERLY LOVE Antony Maitland rarely involved himself in "domestic" cases, but Robert Osmond's story intrigued him. Five years earlier, Osmond's wife Phillipa walked out on him and their little daughter Jennifer. Now she was demanding cust...

  • Providence

    Geoffrey Wolff

    Attorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these people will never be the same after a series of viol...

  • The Big Biazarro

    Leonard Wise

  • All a Man Could Want

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    How could Dr. Kate Bradley succumb to a sexy patient in her own office! The beautiful dermatologist's problem was obvious. Mark Harrison bore a near-fatal resemblance to the notorious movie idol, Ty Winters. Computer programmer by day, celebrity look...

  • Lizzie and Harold

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Come Out to Play

    Jeanette Winter

    In this traditional nursery rhyme updated to a contemporary setting, a mischievous gnome plays the part of the Pied Piper as his fiddle lures the children to follow him on a mysterious, moonlit journey...

  • Anywhere and Always

    Lee Williams

    Within hours, the sexily disheveled visitor to Lydie Henley's hometown has her heart thundering and her composure in smithereens. Inventor Justin Fuller dazzles her with high-tech wizardry, invades her privacy with kamikaze boldness ... then generate...

  • Murder in Advent

    David Williams

  • Rebel Heart

    Lauren Wilde

    A BOY'S GAME From the time he was a young boy playing in the swamps of Louisiana, Jason Montgomery knew one thing: He would someday claim the beautiful Desiree as his bride. No matter that she lived on the massive plantation called Whispering...

  • Safari Heartbreak

    Gwen Westwood

    Fern seemed secure in her new life .. . Then, because of his grandmother's illness, Fern had to take her son, Crispin, for his yearly month-long visit to his father in Africa--to that giant of a man, Terrill, whom she hadn't seen since the...

  • The Kissing Game

    Sally Wentworth

    This wasn't the game she'd signed up to play! Davina could not have been happier. The position she'd wanted and worked so hard for was hers! As physiotherapist to England's famous Redford Rovers soccer team, she would finally have ...

  • Sweet Poison

    Angela Wells

    "You'll put an end to this relationship!" Pavane hated to interfere. She was indebted to her sister for the welcome she'd received at her Spanish home. But Armando de Montilla's knowledge of her sister's indiscretion with h...

  • Let us Know

    Diane Vreuls

  • The Runner

    Cynthia Voigt

    You can run from something, or toward something -- but can you do both at the same time? Book four in the Newbery-winning cycle from Cynthia Voigt.Bullet Tillerman runs. He runs to escape the criticism of his harsh, unforgiving father. He runs to num...

  • Dream Maker

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    He was everything she didn't want in a man. Dangerously handsome, divorced, and left with a seven-year-old son, New York City software publisher Jared Ryder seemed to judge every woman by the standards set by his irresponsible ex-wife. Sue Austin had...

  • Williwaw

    Gore Vidal

    A boat of the Army Transportation Corps fights through the fierce wind of the Williwaw, carrying two officers and a chaplain with its crew. Human nature and the elements move the men through their uncertain destiny....

  • No Man's Brand

    William Vance

  • Double Trouble

    Lynn Turner

    WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON? It was a simple assignment. All Chris Hudson had to do was accompany a coffin to Daytona Beach. Now the darn thing was missing! Max Decker, private investigator, knew something was fishy, so he offered to take her ca...

  • Castles in the Sand

    Lynda Trent

    CASTAWAYS IN LOVE Diana Townsend wanted one thing from life -- to be the most successful hotel magnate in the world, no matter what the consequences to her social life. But when, due to her impetuous nature, she found herself on a deserted Hawa...

  • Bewitched by Love

    Brenda Trent

    BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED Who was the actress behind the sexy, mysterious TV "witch," Ravenna? Ashlyn Elliot wouldn't tell. That is, until Davis Chamberlain penned a letter claiming that the TV charmer was a bad influence on teenagers....

  • A Class Above

    Carolyn Thornton

    Tara's instinct for survival failed just when she needed it most The hitchhiking contest wasn't the smartest move of Tara Jefferson's career but the stakes were well worth the risk. Tara needed to prove she was no different from any other student ...

  • The Golden Express

    Ramsay Thorne

    Captain Gringo following a trail of danger paved with gold.Even for the courageous Captain Gringo, this mission has impossible written all over it. From Costa Rica to El Salvador, he's to run a caravan of gold across steep mountain passes and wild ri...

  • A Family to Cherish

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Christy Shannon was no shrinking violet Her years as a guidance counselor had accustomed Christy to the complexities of family life, and her inherent tenacity demanded that she stick with the problem until she solved it. The problem in this case w...

  • Shell Game

    Douglas Terman

    Separated by the Cuban revolution and their love for the same woman, two adopted brothers--George Brocassie, on a mission to Cuba for the CIA, and Julio Alvarez, Castro's top agent and secret KGB mole--play key roles in the Cuban missile crisis...

  • Dervish Daughter

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • Soda Poppery

    Stephen Tchudi

  • The Bog

    Michael Talbot

    Archaeologist David Macauley discovers that the ancient but preserved corpses found in the Hovern Bog were all mysteriously gnawed to death by some unimaginable creature, that may still roam the bog at night...

  • An Infamous Bargain

    Marlene Suson

    A lady learns that listening to gossip can lose her the man she loves. TIRED OF TOWN AND TON, ARABELLA VAUGHN CANNOT BEAR ANOTHER LONDON SEASON. And so she is dutifully awaiting an offer of marriage from peacockish Lord Estes--especially the we...

  • Soccer Rules Illustrated

    George Sullivan

  • He Was the Stranger

    Sheila Strutt

    He had made her feel she was the stranger Lindsey had known changes would come after her uncle's death. That a male relative would inherit Milk River Ranch. Lindsey, however, was not ready for a man like Wolfe Manston, a brilliant well-know...

  • See You Later Alligator

    Barbara Strauss

  • The Sharpest Edge

    S.M. Stirling; Shirley Meier

    Sword-bearer Shkai'ra and her companion, Megan, dagger-wielding thief and mistress of illusion, are caught in a life-or-death struggle between rival magical powers as a deadly secret threatens to destroy the balance of peace and the Fehinnan Empire...

  • Mystery of the Imposter

    R.L. Stine

  • Eclipse

    William Stevenson

    As a reborn Nazi Party prepares to unleash a modern-day reign of terror, ace newspaperman Scott Talbot races to uncover the secret of ECLIPSE: the code name for a terrifying assassination plot that will either save the world--or plunge it into bloody...

  • This Long Winter Past

    Jeanne Stephens

    After watching the disintegration of parents' marriage, Liann McDowell had vowed never to fall in love with a cop, but Cody Wakefield seemed all too able change her mind. They were thrown together by a local murder trial, Liann as the prosecutor a...

  • The Dream Palace

    Brynne Stephens

    The winner of THE DREAM PALACE contest will win $500 and this Fifth-Class Mage, who was ensorcelled from flesh into solid gold by fantasy sculptor Jeri Lee. Alas, the spell for returning the wizard to life has been lost, but the winner will also rece...

  • If You Love Me

    Barbara Steiner

    Argie has never loved anything the way she loves tennis. But when she meets fellow player Chris, she knows that’s about to change. He's everything she could want in a boy: friendly, cute - and he enjoys tennis, too. But then Chris starts breakin...

  • Chasing the Gilded Shadow

    Hunter Steele

  • To Face the Sun

    Frances Patton Statham

    They called her Sunny. She was a spirited Navy nurse with iridescent blond hair...the gently-bred daughter of a brigadier general...the graciously beautiful Amanda Fitzpatrick. Assigned to the hospital ship Good Hope, Sunny found her work inspirin...

  • Teddy Jo and the Missing Portrait

    Hilda Stahl

  • Winter Magic

    Margaret St. George

    What was so bad about a few phobias? Everyone had them. Teddi Ansel had an aversion to snow and a touch of claustrophobia. Well, perhaps she had more than a touch, but her fears hadn't prevented her from returning to Vail to celebrate her parents'...

  • Above and Beyond

    Erin St. Claire

    LOVE LETTERS Tall, brawny, magnificent -- with a black eye patch and slight limp that only added to his overwhelming masculinity --Trevor Rule might be the one man who could make Kyla Stroud forget her husband's death in the embassy bombing. ...

  • A Silent Song

    Lacey Springer

    "THE GREATER THE LOVE... the more silent the song." Allegra new the words were true; her love for Gray Matthews was no less fierce for having to remain locked in her heart. The successful actor was a guest director at the university where sh...

  • Monastery Nightmare

    Ross H. Spencer

  • Years

    LaVyrle Spencer

    THE SWEEPING PLAINS HELD THE PROMISE OF A LIFETIME LINNEA Eager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up and worldly as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fra...

  • Stallion Gate

    Martin Cruz Smith

    This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.In a New Mexico blizz...

  • Bath Belles

    Joan Smith

    Just when she's had enough of love and money, her comes along to confuse her... IT IS HIGH TIME FOR BELLE TO FACE FACTS -- HER FIANCE IS DEAD AND HER LIFE MUST GO ON. When Belle Haley finally arrives to inspect the London house that her dea...

  • Quest of the Three Worlds

    Cordwainer Smith

    Casher O'Neill--pilgrim, adventurer, and seeker of truth--is involved in bizarre adventures as he travels to Pontoppidan, Henriada, and back home to Mizzer searching for help in overthrowing a dictator...

  • Arizona Temptress

    Bobbi Smith

    INNOCENT ANGEL -- At eighteen,. lovely and willowy Jennie McCaine had never longed for love and passion--and when a gang of desperados kidnapped her, she swore she'd die before submitting to any man's touch. Then her onyx gaze locked with El Cazado...

  • Forgive & Forget

    Lewis B. Smedes

    For all of us who have been wounded by another and struggled to understand and move beyond our feelings of hurt and anger, Lewis Smedes's classic book on forgiveness shows that it is possible to heal our pain and find room in our hearts to forgive. B...

  • Witch Blood

    Will Shetterly

    The story of Rifkin Outcast, Last Master of Castle Gromandiel:When I was a boy in the western fishing village of Loh, I was chosen by the wandering priests of the Warrior Saint to master her Art. Though no one would think me a priest or a saint, I le...

  • Windsong

    Valerie Sherwood

    ADRIFT UPON THE SURGING TIDES OF LOVE... the incandescent beauty Carolina and her dashing buccaneer, Kells, sail from his Caribbean stronghold to her native Virginia...there to await his royal pardon and their glorious wedding. But when an impost...

  • The Players

    Barbara Sherrod

    She made her life a masquerade -- but couldn't disguise her heart! Sparks will fly! When the four Sparks sisters met the Earl of Hammond, the handsome, wealthy lord who was heir to their father's estate, chaos was bound to ensue. Rescui...

  • Sioux Captive

    Jon Sharpe

  • Who's Afraid of Ernestine?

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • The Golden Gate

    Vikram Seth

    "“The great California novel been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy.”—Gore Vidal

    One of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth’s story in verse made him a literary household...

  • Kensho

    Dennis Schmidt

  • Square Eyes

    Deborah Savage

  • Fort Worth

    Leonard Sanders

    The turbulent lives and fortunes of the Spurlocks, over several generations, as they rise from poverty to great wealth and power, reflect the vitality and growth of their city and of the Lone Star State...

  • P.J. the Spoiled Bunny

    Marilyn Sadler

  • Head Em off Tumbleweed

    Tom K. Ryan

  • Quadriphobia

    Alan Ryan

  • Next of Kin

    Eric Frank Russell

    Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory would likely be a one-way trip. But, after he crash-lands on a far distant planet and becomes a prisoner of ruthless aliens, he knows he can...

  • Uncle Henry, Aunt

    Nicole Rubel

    While baby-sitting their niece and nephew, Uncle Henry and Aunt Henrietta relate their honeymoon adventures involving fierce tropical natives, a trek across Antarctica, and an ascent of Mount Everest....

  • Lazy Jack

    Tony Ross

  • A Good Death

    Philip Ross

  • Double Images

    Patricia Rosemoor

    The music was hot -- but would she get burned? Keri Lacey was enjoying moderate success as a director of music videos in Chicago. Then she took on the job of co-directing a video of a top rock-and-roll group, and before she knew it, her success ha...

  • Stillwater Smith

    Frank Roderus

    A lean and grizzled Civil War veteran, Stillwater Smith determines to keep his temper in check, until cattle rancher Asa Wheeler tries to take his property and forces him into a deadly showdown. Original....

  • The Magic Book

    Willo Davis Roberts

  • Desert Hell

    J.R. Roberts

    Crossing the Great Desert in a stagecoach wasn't Clint Adams' idea of a good time. Especially in the company of Red Taggert, a charming but dangerous outlaw who's wanted for murder. Clint has to escort the gentleman to Phoenix -- where justice awaits...

  • Belonging to Taylor

    Kay Robbins

    When Trevor King stumbles upon a weeping damsel, he gallantly offers a hankie--and dewy-eyed Taylor Shannon sniffles out a marriage proposal! Trevor's determined to escape matrimony, but in Taylor's topsy-turvy world, she's a most erotic pursuer.....

  • Something So Right

    Emilie Richards

    SHE'D FORGOTTEN HOW TO REALLY LIVE She had all of Los Angeles at her feet, the record industry's highest awards on her mantel and her name was a household word. Even so, Joelle Lindsay wasn't happy. Somewhere on the road to fame, she'd lost hersel...

  • The Greatest Skits on Earth

    Wayne Rice

  • Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future

    Mike Resnick

    SEBASTIAN NIGHTINGALE CAIN: Bounty hunter. You can call him the Songbird -- but only once. He's after Santiago. VIRTUE MACKENZIE: Freelance reporter. She never gives up. She wants an interview...with Santiago. THE SWAGMAN: He collects art--at g...

  • Karaleen

    Mary Reid

    Karaleen Hammond's career with Vali-Turf, a Silicon Valley computer company, means more to her than God, and even more to her than men and marriage. If she marries at all, she will only marry someone with a compatible lifestyle. Co-worker Lester Pete...

  • Reckless Eyeballing

    Ishmael Reed

    Supported by powerful director Jim Minsk and preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, Ian Ball, a Black southern playwright hated by theater feminists, hopes to redeem himself with a play in which women have all the good parts...

  • Sabrina

    Candice Ransom

    To be a Patriot must she betray the man she loves? In 1780, the Revolutionary War still rages violently, especially in Charleston, South Carolina, where orphaned, 16-year-old Sabrina Robbins lives and works in her uncle's shop. Sabrina, a staunch Pa...

  • Hands Off the Lady

    Elise Randolph

    It was all that socialite Alison McKinsey had left in the world: a half share in a horse she'd never seen--and didn't want. But when she arrived at the dusty Illinois fairgrounds prepared to make a quick sale, she knew she had her work cut out for he...

  • The Perfect Touch

    Rita Rainville

    A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? Jana Cantrell specialized in teaching people to deal with stress. Wade Masters specialized in creating stress in others, not suffering from it himself. Somehow their unlikely match earned the approval of Jana's Aunt Till...

  • Jack Rivers and Me

    Paul John Radley

  • Wanted: Date for Saturday Night

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Julie Klein plans to bring her good-looking cousin Danny, a Yale student posing as her date, to the freshman formal, but if he declines she will have to resort to drastic measures to save her new reputation with the in-crowd...

  • Mysterious

    Fayrene Preston

    "My name," she whispered in soft, secret tones, "is Jennifer--just Jennifer--and no questions, please." Then she murmured a request so surprising that Jerome Mailer could only stare at her exquisite, shadowy profile in the bar's h...

  • Murder in Rosslare

    Kin Platt

    Big Bill Stanwood is a lost man since his beloved wife, Katie, died. He has left his job in the homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department; detective work has no interest for him anymore But Bill must keep the promise he made to Katie. He...

  • Sing Softly to Me

    Dorothy Phillips

    She thought she'd escaped the man--and the memories. But Tom Clary suddenly appeared in Minnesota to summon her home. Without hesitation Beth Marshall left her hospital job and made the hazardous winter drive back to Cody, Wyoming, with the brash cow...

  • Wild Nights

    Natasha Peters

    Emma Louise Vaughan arrived in Cambodia in 1952 with a dream: to leave behind her frivolous life as a Nebraska beauty queen and prove herself as a foreign correspondent, covering the escalating French military presence in Southeast Asia. Alan Haze...

  • American Splendor

    Harvey Pekar

    From off the streets of Cleveland, the amazing and occasionally regrettable true-life adventures of Harvey Pekar, cineaste. Harvey Pekar is from Cleveland. This much you know. But with the release of American Splendor, the indie hit film based on his...

  • Family Resemblances

    Lowry Pei

  • Zella, Zack and Zodiac

    Bill Peet

  • White Mare, Red Stallion

    Diana L. Paxson

    THE LADY OF THE RAVENS Maira lived in the land that would someday be called Scotland, in a time when magic hung heavy on the hills and the Old Gods were revered with pageantry...and with blood. The soldiers of Rome had claimed the island for their o...

  • With Every Kiss

    Sheila Paulos

    Unable to afford attorney Hudson Saunders's fee, Casey Kirkland decided to risk peddling her unpatented puzzle cube, About Face. But when the beautiful toy designer found she'd been swindled by a con man, she needed Hudson more than ever. Only by wor...

  • Spring Break

    Francine Pascal

    Bon voyage... Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are nearly bursting with excitement. Spring break has arrived, and the twins are off to the glamorous South of France! It's the vacation of a lifetime: Elizabeth can't wait to practice her French, but Je...

  • Buddies

    Barbara Park

    ME AND MY SHADOW All my life I've been known as "Dinah Feeney--The Kind One." You know, the type of person who can never say no to anything: the neighborhood hand-me-downs, my old dog Rollo, or the dumb poodle hat my Aunt Maude knit for me. Let's fa...

  • The Penguin Pool Murder

    Stuart Palmer

    Death on Display Miss Hildegarde withers comes to the New York Aquarium to see the Galapagos penguins--not a corpse. But there, floating before her very eyes, grotesquely out of place, is the late Gerald Lester, Will Street broker. Inspector Piper...

  • Bad Manners

    Maggie Paley

  • Secret of the East Wind

    Carole Gift Page

  • Rancho Maria

    Jerry Oster

    The exclusive, trendy California community of Rancho Maria de la Luz is turned upside down by three unnatural deaths in as many days, and reporter Eve Zabriski and detective Sam Branch must unravel the puzzle...

  • Marigold Beach

    Jesse Osburn

    HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER It was bad enough to move to a small town that was suspicious of strangers. It made it even worse that Jordan was the new police chief’s daughter. On top of that, she had fallen in love with Nick, who had the reputation f...

  • The Grass Is Always Greener...

    Sara Orwig

    "Beautification!" Hank Sandusky raged as he read the summons threatening a fine of $800 if he didn't mow his unruly lawn by Saturday! And who was this infuriating Ms. Bedford who'd informed on him? Hank's fury abated when he met his pretty neighbor...

  • Marya: A Life

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past.Growing up i...

  • Renegades of Gor

    John Norman

    As the bloody tide of war spread over Gor, Tarl Cabot, outcast by the Priest-Kings, became deeply enmeshed in the military combat between the empire of Ar and the invaders from Cos. His fate would depend upon which proved victorious in the coming con...

  • Duchess of Kneedeep

    Atanielle Annyn Noel

  • Beloved Scoundrel

    Penelope Neri

    RUTHLESS BRUTE When the scruffy street urchin robbed handsome James Mallory of his cape, he set off in hot pursuit to teach the little cutpurse a lesson he'd never forget! But when the enraged captain discovered the streetwise scamp was really g...

  • Crimson Angel

    Penelope Neri

    With one touch her fiery rage became heavenly rapture! ALLURING GODDESS Captain Adam Markham was certain that his treasure-hunting treks were more exciting than any woman - until he saw ravishing Heather Cameron. To kiss her soft sweet lips wou...

  • Linden Hills

    Gloria Naylor

    The National Book Awardâ€"winning author of The Women of Brewster Place explores the secrets of an affluent black community. For its wealthy African American residents, the exclusive neighborhood of Linden Hills is a symbol of “making it.†The ul...

  • Mission to World War II

    Susan Nanus

    IT IS THE YEAR 1940. You have traveled back to Europe during World War II. You are hiding from German soldiers in the attic of a Warsaw house. A young Jewish boy in the resistance movement offers to help you escape. You must act quickly. Do you ris...

  • A Peaceable Warrior

    Marguerite Murray

  • Risking It All

    Caitlin Murray

    Mitchell McNaughton was her last hope. He'd helped years before in her sister's lawsuit. And won. But victory had cost him his small-town family law practice. Kristina Neilson finally found him in Austin, grown prosperous handling oil and gas leases....

  • Caring

    Ralph W. Moss

  • The Wade Dynasty

    Carole Mortimer

    She refused to marry him, but couldn't deny her love Ten years ago Brenna's mother married Nathan Wade's father, forcing young Brenna to accept her parents' divorce as final. In time, though, Brenna not only found a new home at ...

  • Silvernail

    Jim Morris

    The Green Berets sent Captain John Silvernail to San Sebastian to change the tide of history. His mission: to hook up with the rebel army that was whipping the pants off the U.S. backed dictator. His goal: to win its leader's confidence before Castro...

  • Heroes in Hell

    Janet Morris

    (OF COURSE IT'S A FANTASY . . . ISN'T IT?) Alexander the Great teams up with Julius Caesar and Achilles to re-fight the Trojan War--with Machiavelli as their intelligence officer and Cleopatra in charge of R&R . . . Yuri Andropov learns to Love th...

  • Monster Express

    Stephen Mooser

  • The Wolf Whispered Death

    Barbara Moore

    FOUR-FOOTED MURDER The New Mexican rancher had been brutally murdered. The huge tracks around the body were the best clues local police had. But what had made them--a huge feral dog, a wolf, or as nearby Indians believed, a white werewolf? Dr. ...

  • Penny Black

    Susan Moody

    Penny Wanawake, the daughter of a British aristocrat and an African ambassador to the U.N., searches for a killer in the upper echelons of Washington, D.C., society, after the murder of a former school friend, Marfa Lund...

  • O'clock

    Quim Monzo

  • The Sandcastle Man

    Nicole Monet

    CASTLES IN THE AIR .. . Each wave crashing upon the shore seemed to drive the point home Sharon Vecchio was 29, healthy, owned the best restaurant in Mill Valley . . . and she wanted a child. Michael's child. But he was gone--and all she could che...

  • El Paso

    Hank Mitchum

    As a hub of transportation and commerce, El Paso had a reputation as a rough town. For the Lone Star Stage Company, that frequently spelled trouble. It was a sure bet that when a shipment of government gold was scheduled to ride the private line unde...

  • Last War

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • Private Affairs

    Judith Michael

    After sixteen years of marriage and family, Matt and Elizabeth Lovell risked everything to build an empire of their own. Soon they were an American success, caught up in the breathless glamour and power of celebrity. For Matt, it was a world of Senat...

  • A Capitol Crime

    Lawrence Meyer

  • Yankee's Lady

    Kay McMahon

    DEFIANT CAPTIVE The first time golden-haired Rachel Montgomery touched the Union intruder, she struck him with a chair to escape her imprisonment. But just as she was about to slip away, the virile bluecoat grabbed her in a breathless grip and the h...

  • Montana Skies

    Jan McKee

    Jennifer Douglas, heir apparent to the Douglas Ranch, finds her birthright in jeopardy after her father adopts handsome Devlin McShane, and her attraction turns to anger as she flees into the arms of a charming but dangerous Easterner On the Weste...

  • Here We Go Again

    Joyce McGill

  • Jack and Susan In 1933

    Michael McDowell

    Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1933 Jack and Susan ...

  • Cameron Comes Through

    Philip McCutchan

    Fans of McCutchan's hero Donald Cameron will be diverted by this flashback to his first adventure as an officer. A brand-new sub-lieutenant on the destroyer Wharfedale, Cameron (Cameron's Raid is part of the Allied effort to supply besieged Malta in ...

  • Mando

    Gary McCarthy

  • Hey, Kid! Does She Love Me?

    Harry Mazer

    Jeff’s life would be so much better if he were the one directing it  Close-up: Mary running toward him with tears in her eyes. “Oh, my darling, I couldn’t wait to get back.†Cut to long shot: Jeff puts his arms around her. They kiss. Fad...

  • Impulsive Challenge

    Margaret Mayo

    She hated Nathaniel before they even met Gisele Latham was wary of all men--because of her miserable stepfather and her own disillusioning love affair. And Nathaniel Oakley was a typical example of the arrogant male Gisele hated. Reluctantly, ...

  • Just Me and My Little Sister

    Mercer Mayer

  • Bittersweet Sacrifice

    Bay Matthews

    Lindy Scott really had believed she could give up the baby. When Dr. Fedders suggested she be a surrogate mother for that man, it had seemed like the answer to her prayers. She desperately needed the money for her son's surgery after the accident tha...

  • Crosswinds

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    WINDS OF CHANGE When fire broke out in the fields surrounding Coogan, Oklahoma, Amanda Jameson joined her neighbors in their battle against the fiery destruction. It was a most unlikely occasion for a courtship. Yet Amanda knew something was in...

  • Ritual of Blood

    Doug Masters

  • The Rebus Treasury

    Jean Marzollo

  • Don Martin Grinds Ahead

    Don Martin

  • Gideon's Vote

    J.J. Marric

    John Creasey writing as J. J. Marric studies a British general-election campaign, and examines especially its police aspects. From the protection of candidates (from burglars among other things), the dangerous activities of extremists of right and...

  • Is Anyone Home?

    Ron Maris

  • Portrait of a Married Woman

    Sally Mandel

    SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD IT ALL. UNTIL SHE DISCOVERED MORE. After seventeen years of marriage, Maggie Hollander should have it all. Her husband, Matthew, a handsome lawyer, still loves her deeply. Two irrepressible young children complete the picture-p...

  • The Lamplight and the Stars

    Eric Malpass

    Nathan Cranswick’s third child comes into the world on the day of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Whilst the Empire celebrates, Nathan’s concerns are about his family’s future. A gentle and wise preacher, he gratefully accepts the chance to...

  • Love's Sweet Surrender

    Margaret Malone

    As beautiful, brilliant Michele Edwards searches for a way to save her Southern California ranch, she becomes uncertain about whether or not she can trust Craig Perot, the strong, handsome man of her dreams...

  • The Last Waltz

    Dorothy Mack

    A beauteous young gambler stakes her heart in a high-risk game of love THE GAMBLER'S DAUGHTER Miss Adrienne Castle had inherited only one thing beside debts from her dashing, feckless father. She had learned from him a remarkable skill at c...

  • Assignment in Brittany

    Helen MacInnes

    Evan Matthews, his commanding officer, had been fooled by the Frenchman's resemblance to Hearne. But once Matthews knew the truth, he decided to make good use of it. So Martin Hearne would become Bertrand Corlay, right down to the birthmark and the m...

  • The Fire of Spring

    Elizabeth Lowell

    LOGAN GARRETT DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE He believed in revenge. Dawn Sheridan's beautiful calculating mother had destroyed Logan's older brother, and Logan had sworn vengeance. When he won the Sheridan ranch in a poker game, he should have been sati...

  • Dangerous Secrets

    Anne Hunter Lowell

    Will Liz be forced to resign? Athletic Liz Moore has finally become a member of the in crowd. She's treasurer of Pearl, the star of the Taft field hockey team, and best of all - she's Susie Madden's best friend! But Liz hard-won popularity is suddenl...

  • Energy Unbound

    L. Hunter Lovins

  • Flight to the Savage Empire

    Jean Lorrah

  • Scenes from a Balcony

    Jenny Loring

    A LEGACY OF WRONGS WAS HERS TO RIGHT When Elizabeth Tulley Calhoun inherited her uncle's North Carolina daily, The Hilby Herald, she believed she could handle any complications that might arise. Then she met Cass McCready. The attraction was im...

  • I Take This Man

    Emilie Loring

    "THE LOVELIEST BRIDE OF THE SEASON!"...said even her most envious friends when twenty-three-year-old Penelope married Donald Garth, millionaire president of the Garth airplane plant. Though she had become mistress of Uplands, the palatial Garth es...

  • Night Striker

    Amii Lorin

    He'd tracked her down, saved her from her brutal kidnappers, but he couldn't save her from herself. Arrogant, self-possessed, yet still innocent in love, shed begged for his kiss, unaware that the woman within would burst into flames at the first tou...

  • Passion's Pirate

    Victoria London

    HE TOOK ALL HE DESIRED Captain Nicholas Rhodes would do anything to fulfill his lust for adventure, so when the notorious smuggler heard a young and beautiful traitor was on the loose, he decided to hunt her down. In no time he had the ravishing f...

  • Slocum and the Bozeman Trail

    Jake Logan

    CROOKED OFFICIALS AND CURVY WOMEN never slowed John Slocum down before, but when his trail hands are slaughtered by a band of renegade Sioux, Slocum is forced to join up with an unlikely wagon train of misfits. Soon the Bozeman Trail turns into a hel...

  • Lady on the Line

    Cait Logan

    Even from a distance, K.C. Rollins knows the man's a ladykiller. But she dances with him anyway ... and unwittingly sets off a shattering explosion of feeling. Barrett Redding is almost more man than K.C. can handle--arrogantly chauvinistic one mo...

  • The Spring of Butterflies: And Other Chinese Folk Tales

    He Liyi

  • Sweet Reason

    Robert Littell

    Somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia, the U.S.S. Eugene F. Ebersole -- a rusted World War II relic whose best days are far past -- patrols the waters on a mission to protect American values in this suddenly-not-so-Cold War. The decrepit destroye...

  • Telling Secrets

    Wendy Lichtman

  • Glitz

    Elmore Leonard

    “Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment.†-- New York TimesElmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers†(Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s bo...

  • Lightship

    Siegfried Lenz

    It is the last watch of the lightship that stands at anchor in the Baltic Sea, near the port of Kiel; it is nine years since the end of World War II and the mines she warned the shipping of have been removed. But on her last watch, her peace is inter...

  • The Carnivorous Lamb

    Brad Leithauser

  • Dark Castle, White Horse

    Tanith Lee

    IN DARKNESS SHE WAKES-- a beautiful young woman, forever imprisoned in the Castle of Dark. Guarded and bespelled by two old hags, can she master the secret magic to summon the champion who will set her free? INTO DARKNESS HE RIDES-- a handsome p...

  • Best of Spider-Man

    Stan Lee

  • Logical Choice

    Amanda Lee (1)

    LOVE'S LOGIC Safely cloaked in the anonymity of a clown costume, Diana Adams flirted outrageously with Blake Hamilton. She knew her impulsive behavior was dangerous, and hoped, during the week-long management seminar they were attending in Orland...

  • Trigger Guard

    Roy Lebeau

    HIRED GUN It was something he swore he'd never do -- turn hired gun -- but Lee Morgan, alone, bitter and down on his luck, had no other choice. When Don Luis d'Espana, hidalgo of a huge Mexican hacienda, offers him hard cash money to protect d'Espan...

  • The Perfect Spy

    John Le Carre

    John Le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him aunprecedented worldwide acclaim. Magnus Pym, Britian's premier spy, has ...

  • Neighborhood Watch

    Mell Lazarus

    Widowed writer Loring Neiman, a respected member of the Kingsborough Beach community, tries to borrow money from his wealthy neighbors, gets turned down, but comes up with a scheme to pay off his debts...

  • New Black Mask #4

    Richard Layman

  • Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude

    Keith Laumer

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES RETIEF A DULL BOY.. . That's why a chance to apply his diplomatic skills to the Annual Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude should have proved quite a relief for the Galaxy's Only Two-fisted Diplomat; after all, what could...

  • A Face in the Crowd

    Shirley Larson

    He was more than she could handle Toni Pereola was not looking forward to her latest job, even though it was in gorgeous Key West. She'd be working closely--too closely--with the infamous Cay Sinclair, mixing sound for several concerts he was prod...

  • Bad Scene at Bong Son

    John Lansing

  • Ringarra

    Coral Lansbury

  • Thinking Big

    Susan Kuklin

  • Sweet Starfire

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    She was Cidra, an ethereal, fiery-haired beauty, raised amid the serenity and shelter of a spiritual race, but belonging to another people, the so-called Wolves. He was Teague Severance, a ruggedly handsome adventurer, a Wolf used to taking - and get...

  • Where Are You Going, Little Mouse ?

    Robert Kraus

  • The Butler and His Lady

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    Pat Mahoney was every working woman's dream -- a gorgeous brawny build that filled out his white butler's coat to perfection, devastating blue eyes that twinkled with knowing humor, and could he ever cook! Hired to put Dusty Ross's life in comfortabl...

  • It's O.K. If You Don't Love Me

    Norma Klein

    New Yorker Jody has what she thinks is a very liberated view of sex, while Midwesterner Lyle still thinks love means having to say you're sorry. "The trauma and confusion of the sexual coming-of-age by a liberated woman is presented with skill and un...

  • Cut in Diamonds

    Margaret Kirk

  • Snares of the Enemy

    Pauline King

    When inspector Evan Morgan, a devout Wesleyan Methodist, investigates a murder at the Ambelhurst monastery, he discovers that tracking a killer in a monastic community is more difficult than he imagined...

  • New Day

    C.L. Keyworth

  • The Masakado Lesson

    William P. Kennedy

    A motley group of greedy Americans plays an intricate global game of triple cross involving sex, poker, bank defrauding, and the cracking of the most sophisticated codes ever invented, with the winner taking control of the world...

  • Cimarron and the Red Earth People

    Leo P. Kelley

  • The Feminine

    Richard Kehl

  • Max in Love

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Max on Earth

    Marilyn Kaye

  • The Popples and King Most

    Peggy Kahn

  • A Matter of Time

    Deborah Joyce

    No one would believe she was not a traitor Julie Smith, flight attendant, stepped off the plane in Honolulu and was arrested. The charge was theft of government property -- spying! A top secret computer disk was missing. In the wrong hands, the in...

  • Desire Never Changes // The Convenient Lorimer Wife

    Penny Jordan

    Marry Chase Lorimer--impossible! Since Somer MacDonald's humiliating encounter with Chase Lorimer on the isle of Jersey, she had kept men at a distance. Five years ago she had foolishly tried to prove her sexual desirability by seducing the...

  • As Soon As It Rains

    Kaylie Jones

  • The Wounded Stag

    William Johnston

    Examines the roots of Christian mysticism, explains how to connect prayer with peace and social justice, and discusses the Eucharist, the interpretation of the Scriptures, and the sense of God's presence...

  • Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold

    Crockett Johnson

  • Wild Robin

    Susan Jeffers

  • One of the Boys

    Jill Jarnow

    Friendship-1; Love-0 Until now, super athletic Jenny loved being the manager of the boys' soccer team. The guys all accept her as one of them, and she's made a lot of good friends. Unfortunately, gorgeous, gray-eyed Rick thinks of her as just a fr...

  • Separate Lives

    Carolyn Jantz

    Was it marriage for money or love? Gwen Shaughnessy's marriage to Brad Robilliard, the cold, controlled founder of Robilliard Enterprises, was a business deal strictly for money. If they stayed together for one year, Brad's uncle, a misgui...

  • A Family Affair

    Sandra James

    FATE DREW HER TO HER SON'S FATHER As an act of compassion, Jenna Bradford had served as surrogate mother for a childless couple. Now, on the brink of marriage herself, she found she couldn't erase the memory of the son she'd borne. Determined ...

  • The Maul and the Pear Tree

    P.D. James; T.A. Critchley

    In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake through his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders? Drawing on contemporary records and newspaper cuttings, for example, the...