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  • The Rebus Treasury

    Jean Marzollo

  • 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....

  • Soda Poppery

    Stephen Tchudi

  • Teeny Tiny

    Jill Bennett

  • Zella, Zack and Zodiac

    Bill Peet

  • Wild Robin

    Susan Jeffers

  • Grandpa & Bo

    Kevin Henkes

    Bo was spending the summer with Grandpa. they walked and fished and made thing together. They celebrated Christmas together -- a very special summer Christmas. But best of all, they talked and laughed and talked some more. And when they finally sa...

  • Bunnies on Their Own

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Lazy Jack

    Tony Ross

  • Sleepless Days

    Jurek Becker

    An East German schoolteacher is jolted into an awareness of his mortality by a seeming heart attack. The actions he takes afterword put him on a collision course with the state in which he has painlessly, if numbly, lived his life. The results, whi...

  • Woman of Honour

    Emma Darcy

    She'd lost her trust in men Not one, but two bad experiences with men had put Molly strictly on the defensive. From now on she'd have nothing to do with them. So Molly concentrated instead on the gourmet catering service she and a frie...

  • Count Sergei's Pride

    Janet Edmonds

    Count Sergei Borodinov demanded obedience -- from his soldiers, his serfs and his wife. In his household there would be no hint of the westernization ordered by the Tsar. But Kirsty, his beautiful young bride, was English and use to independence -- a...

  • Hunter's Snare

    Emily Ruth Edwards

    "Fake an engagement, are you serious?" When Samantha Abbott's boss, Richard Bohlen, asked her to help protect him from an old flame, she thought the idea was outrageous. Ridiculous! She couldn't understand why anyone would have to ...

  • 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...

  • Where Are You Going, Little Mouse ?

    Robert Kraus

  • See You Later Alligator

    Barbara Strauss

  • When the Gods Returned

    Charles Beamer

  • 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...

  • Loving Ties

    Janis Flores

    WHAT A PERFECT FAMILY... No one really knows the truth about the Camerons -- Ben's secret love, Iris's manipulations, the bitter reality of Darcy's marriage, the shaking fear behind Claire's smile, the conflicts reigning in Jenna&...

  • Another Marvelous Thing

    Laurie Colwin

    Another Marvelous Thing is perfect for anyone who knows firsthand that opposites actually do attract. These spare and unsentimental stories display how two very different people -- a tough-minded and tenderhearted woman and an urbane, old-fashioned o...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Ravishing of Lol Stein

    Marguerite Duras

    The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life -- and a voyeur. Returning with her husband and children to the town where, years b...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Why Are You So Mean to Me?

    Deborah Hautzig

  • 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...

  • Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold

    Crockett Johnson

  • Popples' Pajama Party

    George

  • The Popples and King Most

    Peggy Kahn

  • Visit to the Sesame Street Library

    Deborah Hautzig

    Illus. in full color. "Big Bird discovers that the book he wants to buy in the bookstore costs more than he has, so the bookseller wisely sends him to the library. There, Big Bird discovers that libraries have records, cassettes, story hours, films, ...

  • P.J. the Spoiled Bunny

    Marilyn Sadler

  • Good Night, Lewis!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Read-A-Rebus: Tales and Rhymes in Words and Pictures

    William H. Hooks

  • Head Em off Tumbleweed

    Tom K. Ryan

  • The Trouble with Dad

    Babette Cole

  • Billy Goats Gruff

    Susan Hellard

  • Some Summer Lands

    Jane Gaskell

    DAW Books, 1986. DAW Collectors No. 666. Mass market paperback. Reprint, 1st thus. Book 5 in the 5-book "Atlan / Cija" cycle. Set in prehistoric South America and in the mythical world of Atlantis. The books in the series are: "The Serpent (1963); "T...

  • Red Rose

    Mary Balogh

    THE SINGLE-MINDED MISS In the whirl of the London marriage mart, Miss Rosalind Dacey stood alone. While other young ladies used all their wiles to snare a husband, Rosalind did the reverse. Single she was and single she would remain. If she had an...

  • Under the Wild Moon

    Diane Carey

    PASSION’S ANCIENT MAGIC By torchlight Will Scarlet lowered Katie into the soft furs that covered his bed. As he pulled away her velvet gown to expose her creamy whiteness he sensed the desire coursing through her. He had captured her, yet she mo...

  • Linden Hills

    Gloria Naylor

    The National Book Award"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...

  • The Love-Makers

    Judith Gould

    Elizabeth-Anne Hale, stunning, ambitious, and sensual, arrived in New York with a dream that seemed impossible to everyone but herself. For she knew she had the brains - and the body - to make it come true. In the free-wheeling world of high finance...

  • Letters to Sherlock Holmes

    Roger Lancelyn Green

  • 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...

  • Caring

    Ralph W. Moss

  • Angelina's Birthday

    Helen Craig

    This birthday book has the year separated by seasons. Each season has two (2) magnificent colored pages of illustrations followed by a monthly illustrated lined calendar to note birthdays. Thereafter follows an address book....

  • The Road to Corlay

    Richard Cowper

    On The Eve of the Fourth Millenium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, - was crushed beneath the scepter of a powerful and repressive Church. But On the Eve of the Fourth Millenium the sound of a magical ...

  • The Navigator of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • 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...

  • Mando

    Gary McCarthy

  • Hard Riders

    J.T. Edson

    Their fame spread like wildfire through the West—a band of Texans who rode and fought together like brothers in the name of justice.There was Mark Counter, the soft-spoken young giant whose dandy appearance belied a strength few men could match...

  • Lone Star and the Timberland Terror

    Wesley Ellis

    Someone's out to crush the Starbuck logging empire -- and Jessie along with it in the forty-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, an...

  • 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...

  • Dangerous Dandy

    Rachelle Edwards

    HOW MYSTERIOUS! A HURT STRANGER FOUND ON THE PROPERTY, IN THE MIDST OF A SNOWSTORM... No one was more surprised than Davinia Winterton when the dashing Rupert Jardine was discovered, in need of her ministrations. For a while the seamless quiet she...

  • Pride's Captive

    Mary Daheim

    Serena was sure Brant Parnell wanted to marry her for her father's money, but it didn't matter. An elopement with the handsome sea captain would get her to Massachusetts where she could realize her most cherished dream -- to be a newspaper journalist...

  • Highland Tryst

    Jean Canavan

    WHEN THE GREAT CLANS OF SCOTLAND SHED BLOOD FOR HONOR, KATHLYN SURRENDERED...TO A DANGEROUS LOVE! Daughter of a powerful laird, Kathlyn was a proud, wild beauty. One man could turn her fiery eyes soft as the Highland mist: Alex Lindsay, a fierce...

  • Lady Dearborn's Debut

    Elizabeth Chater

    "SENSIBLE? HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN ME TO DO THE SENSIBLE THING, DEAREST CLEA?" Clea Bradford must ruefully agree with her aunt, Lady Floss Dearborn. Throwing off her widow's weeds, Floss intends to use her small inheritance to find a suita...

  • A Very Special Lover

    Emily Elliott

    Jody had had good reason to leave her husband. Yet now, suddenly widowed and left with a young son to support, she faced an impossible choice. Her husband had died in debt to his brother. And now Doug had given her an ultimatum -- share her business ...

  • Out of the Clear Blue

    Marion Smith Collins

    If he'd sailed into the harbor at the prow of a Viking ship, Molly couldn't have been more surprised. Dashing Rand Eriksson seemed to be the perfect romantic hero -- a pirate adventurer from out of a dream, and all rugged, powerful man! But M...

  • Fortune's Choice

    Elissa Curry

    Intent on blowing her last ten bucks in style, down on-her-luck socialite "Joey" Fortune sweeps into exclusive Bluefelter's restaurant -- never expecting a dashing stranger with a Rhett Butler grin to gallantly invite her to dinner! Only ...

  • Play It Again, Sam

    Petra Diamond

    Forget the '80s! Incurably nostalgic Nedda Shaw rhapsodizes over old movies and escapes to a more genteel age by collecting antique dresses. When trendy Hollywood filmmakers invade her sleepy hometown, she's thrown for a loop -- especially by...

  • Savage Surrender

    Lindsey Hanks

    BELOVED ENEMY Hallie Parker's mission was vengeance. Disguised as a bandit, she chased down every stagecoach approaching Prospect City to take back the ill-gotten wealth of the man who killed her father. Her scheme was so successful that the villa...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Curse of Sagamore

    Kara Dalkey

    Everyone in the kingdom is battling over control of the throne except young Prince Abderian, who becomes trapped in a web of political intrigue involving ghosts and goddesses, demons and dragons, heroes and heretics, and a powerful but senile wizard...

  • Last War

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • 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...

  • Wizenbeak

    Alexis A. Gilliland

  • 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...

  • The Wicked Enchantment

    Margot Benary-Isbert

  • Homunculus

    James P. Blaylock

    It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group l...

  • On the Run

    Gordon R. Dickson

    After the police order him to forget his missing wife, Kil Bruner's search leads him to deformed psychos, secret societies of wierd giants, time-warping superhumans, and warring conspiracies ready to destroy Earth...

  • Death Riders of Hel

    Asa Drake

    Bloodsong 2# The forces of Hel have kidnapped Bloodsong's daughter in a desperate effort to reawaken the dark magic buried in her soul. From the island of the Berzerkers to wise Freya's domain, Bloodsong battles an onslaught led by the ghoulish De...

  • 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...

  • Matters of the Heart

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    They were the unforgettable, passionate men and women bound together by an era of turmoil and tears, by ties of blood and passion, by a search for love, happiness and fulfillment... FRANCES ... A beautiful, proud Englishwoman torn between her drea...

  • To the Highest Bidder

    Neva Beach

    He was determined to get what he wanted. Even if it meant giving a woman a chance. She was determined to prove she could do the job better than anyone else. Bowman's Mill was on the brink of financial disaster but had the rare hardwood Randall Gordon...

  • Heatstroke

    Jillian Blake

    Tony Miles had been a rock star. Cary Davidson had been a cheerleader. A decade earlier they had been brought together for an elaborate publicity stunt. And in one evening they had shared something Cary had never forgotten. Now the magazine that h...

  • Diamond in the Sky

    Natalie Bishop

    Maybe she was crazy to think she could help Jason Garrett. But Taylor Michaelson owed him her career. When they'd starred together in the sensational Diamond Girl films, he'd made her the best she could be. Without Jason. she'd have been ...

  • The World in His Arms

    Joanna Brandon

    Dawn Hastings was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea--or rather, between Brent Graham, the man shed married, and Scott Larkin, whom she'd loved for as long as she could remember. They'd all been kids together. Then Scott was sent away to ...

  • Season of Desire

    Janice Young Brooks

    Raised in a secluded world of books and dreams, Kate Sayers put fantasy behind her and came to Kansas to work as a Harvey girl in one of Mr. Fred Harvey's finest railroad restaurants. She was marked by innocence. The brooding stranger she glimpsed...

  • Unfinished Rhapsody

    Gina Caimi

    MUSIC WAS ALL THAT MATTERED Jason Caldwell was the scariest man Lauren Welles had ever met. As a child, she'd worshiped him--he was her guardian, her harshest judge, her most demanding teacher. He'd been her world, but he seemed determined to mold...

  • Sweet-Time Lovin'

    Blair Cameron

    For Tamara Armando, confirmed junk-food addict, inheriting a chocolate company seemed like a dream come true. Even if it meant leaving New York and going to Seattle to run it. However, her strange windfall soon became complicated. She discovered that...

  • Confess to Apollo

    Suzanne Carey

    YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN.... Or so Zoe Walker thought when she was sent back to the Greek fishing community of Tarpon Springs, Florida, to do some political trouble-shooting for her boss, the governor. On her very first day, though, she met a man w...

  • Wind Along the River

    Jacquelyn Cook

    "...her heart pulsed to the rhythm of Jonathan's words "I do care." EMMA EDWARDS - At 27, she had reached the evening of her life. Dependent upon the bounty of an uncaring arid capricious sister-in-law, she feels that even God has forgotten her... ...

  • Straight from the Heart

    Barbara Delinsky

    The attraction was undeniable Heather Cole had an urgent reason for seeking Robert McCrae. But the renowned heart specialist distracted her from her purpose with his marvelous bedside manner .... In no time, they were dating steadily. Every tim...

  • Still Grow the Stars

    Harriette De Jarnette

    DIVIDED HEARTS The love that binds together the lovely Fanette and her husband, Jared McLaury, is put to a severe test when war is declared between the North and South and Jared, a dedicated abolitionist, joins the Union Army. Forced to leave thei...

  • The Straight Game

    Rebecca Flanders

    A lonely old lady. A fortune. A missing heir. Eleanora Jassamine Wiley, known as E.J. to her friends and associates, knew the combination would attract every con man in fifty states to San Francisco. Which was why, as Honoria Fitzgerald's atto...

  • Once Upon a Time

    Lucy Gordon

    CAUTION: DANGER AHEAD Once upon a time Bronwen Montorsoli, a young widow, struggled to support her son with odd singing jobs. But then a social worker accused her of filling her boy's head with grandiose fantasies of being related to an Italian pr...

  • The Only Sin

    Julie Ellis

    Lilli Landau's desperate drive to build a cosmetic empire rivaling those of Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden and to satisfy the desires of her heart takes her through the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful. Reissue....

  • Something to Treasure

    Rita Clay Estrada

    She vowed never to be burned again Men! To Brenda Hunt they were all alike--selfish, egocentric boors. And who had time for them, anyway? A single parent, Brenda had three children to raise, a house to run, a job to keep. Leo Coulter was an esp...

  • The Perfect Choice

    Melissa Forsythe

    Their meeting was not accidental Catherine Davenport never stood out in a crowd and was seldom the one to capture a man's eye. First glances and romantic interest usually went to her friend Julia. Matthew Ragsdale, however, wasn't distr...

  • The Errant Bridegroom

    Vanessa Gray

    THE LORD OF TEMPTATION It was a long way from a sheltered English country estate to the dazzling whirl of Vienna where the glittering nobility of Europe had assembled to celebrate victory over Napoleon. For Corinna Darley, it was a journey filled ...

  • Jesse's Girl

    Billie Green

    Jesse Perkins smiled: E.M. Cooper, D.V.M. Little peanut was now the town Veterinarian. Had it really been eleven years since he'd left Bitter, Texas? Eleven years since the sheriff jailed him for a crime he didn't commit? Ellie gasped. Exhilaratio...

  • Zachary's Law

    Lisa Jackson

    Unconventional described Zachary Winters to a T. Lauren Regis found it difficult to imagine this rugged man doing anything as confining as studying law journals, pacing in front of a jury, or straightening an imported silk tie. But if Zachary Winters...

  • Split Images

    Naomi Horton

    ROMANCE BY THE BOOK Cassidy Yorke had interviewed plenty of celebrities for her TV talk show, but no one had gotten her goat the way Logan Wilde did. The author of the hottest sex guide on the market had virtually seduced her on live television. A...

  • A Very Special Favor

    Kristin James

    LOVE IN BLOOM .. . Emily had been a plain Jane all her life, but that hadn't stopped her from loving Adam Marshall, her charismatically handsome employer. She had never thought that Adam saw her as anything other than a secretary--until the day he...

  • Images

    Anna James

    BETTINA'S BACK! Tina Lawrence wanted to avoid the hoopla surrounding her return to modeling, but publicity was part of the package. So, it seemed, was Adam Cole, the arrogant head of Century Cosmetics, whose products Tina would be advertising. ...

  • Reason Enough

    Arlene James

    ISLAND GIRL In all the time he had spent on Guam, Captain Victor Dayton had never given much thought to the islanders. That is, until Coral Jerome came storming onto his ship. Coral was wild and carefree, as bright and sunny as her tropical hom...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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'...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Girl Named Summer

    Julie Garwood

    A little lie can get her in lots of trouble. A little lie never hurt anyone. That's what Summer Matthews thought when she met David Marshall and fell in love. Summer would do anything for David, including letting him believe something about hersel...

  • Wycliffe and the Four Jacks

    W.J. Burley

    A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case.Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of Cornwall. But ...

  • Come Morning

    Joe Gores

    Released after spending several years in San Quentin, Runyan must confront several people involved in the jewel heist that put him away--insurance investigator David Moyers, treacherous accomplice Jamie Cardwell, and Louise Graham, author of a book o...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder in Advent

    David Williams

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Heart of the Comet

    David Brin; Gregory Benford

    From the fertile imaginations of two of science fiction's most formidable talents, nebula Award winners Gregory Benford and David Brin, comes a compelling and visionary novel of epic proportions...a story of drama and power, of deep human courage and...

  • 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...

  • Night Calls

    Rex Anderson

    Something very unpleasant is happening in Houston. Chad Palmer, owner of a lighting store, has become the target of a homicidal maniac. With frightening regularity, the disturbed killer telephones Chad and forces him to listen helplessly as he kills ...

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • The Jack the Ripper Walking Tour Murder

    Albert Borowitz

    London, August 1988. Paul Prye, Columbia University professor and true crime nut, and his wife Alice, art historian but a devotee of Agatha Christie, were in town for the centennial of Jack the Ripper's bloody crimes. Paul was meeting a group of fell...

  • Break In

    Dick Francis

    Blood ties can mean trouble. Kit Fielding, proud heir to tradition and sporting hero to legions of fans, learns this lesson to his rapidly mounting regret. His close, even telepathic kinship with his twin sister, Holly, draws him into a crusade to sa...

  • 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...

  • Tourist Season

    Carl Hiaasen

    The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... ...

  • Strangled Prose

    Joan Hess

    I'm Claire Malloy. I run that cute little bookstore in the abandoned railroad depot--the Book Depot. I love Mildred--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--so I agreed to let her use my store for the autograph party for her latest smutty romance, Professor of Passi...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Monastery Nightmare

    Ross H. Spencer

  • 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...

  • Max in Love

    Marilyn Kaye

  • 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...

  • Working It Out

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Secrets

    M.E. Cooper

    Secret Admirer… Bashful Cynthia has fallen in love -- with her best friend, Bill. But she's afraid to confess her feelings face to face. If he doesn't feel the same way, their friendship may be ruined forever. So Cynthia decides to become Bill's se...

  • Max on Earth

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Love Is a Durable Fire

    Brian Burland

  • Tefuga

    Peter Dickinson

    In this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat’s wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades later, her son becomes caught up in a maelstrom of violent politica...

  • Kitty Collins

    Philip Gould

  • 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...

  • A Peaceable Warrior

    Marguerite Murray

  • The Magic Book

    Willo Davis Roberts

  • Life Drawing

    Emily Arnold

    From the author of A CRAVINGA portrait of the artist as a young woman, coming of age in a tempestuous family, exploring love, choosing to follow the less travelled path."There's so much intelligence here and a search for truth... Miranda Geer knows e...

  • I the Supreme

    Augusto Roa Bastos

    I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathe...

  • Merari

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

  • High Jinx

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    The year is 1954, and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots to succeed him, another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to ove...

  • Cabin 3033

    Anna Clarke

  • Flowers and Fruit

    Colette

  • Going to See the Leaves

    Linda Collins

  • Dorrie and the Museum Case

    Patricia Coombs

  • A Dismal Thing to Do

    Alisa Craig

    THE MRS. IS MISSING It’s bad news for Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His wife’s new car has been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere -- with nothing inside but her handbag and a faint odor of burning....

  • Tiger Butte

    Jack Cummings

  • Deadwood

    Pete Dexter

    DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any ma...

  • Goldkorn Tales

    Leslie Epstein

    After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill in the days, but at least there's one blessing - he wa...

  • The Deep End

    Joy Fielding

    Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart. Her husband's desertion after twenty years of marriage leaves her stunned. Eve, her best friend, is strangely distant. Her grandfather, who's been a pillar of strength and support, lies ill and ...

  • Murder in E Minor

    Robert Goldsborough

    When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts himself out of retirement, amid a juicy public scandal, Wolfe and Archie feast on suspects yet starved for facts, until the scanty clues finally arrange t...

  • Love from Elizabeth

    Meredith Gregg

  • Forrest Gump

    Winston Groom

    The modern classic that inspired the beloved movie starring Tom Hanks. Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious,...