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  • Mercenary Mountain

    Nick Carter

  • The Navigator of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • Ritual of Blood

    Doug Masters

  • Sharpe's Regiment

    Bernard Cornwell

    A CORRUPT POLITICAL ENEMY IS DETERMINED TO DISBAND THE SOUTH ESSEX REGIMENT AND TO DESTROY MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE Shape returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders k...

  • The Trumpet of Terror

    Deborah Lerme Goodman

    (Ages 9-12) Odin entrusted your family with his Trumpet generations ago. Now it is yours, and you know the rules: only blow the trumpet once in a lifetime. You are about to sail to new lands when an old man with one eye approaches you. Is this Odin, ...

  • 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...

  • Cabin 3033

    Anna Clarke

  • 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 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. ...

  • The Greatest Skits on Earth

    Wayne Rice

  • The Legacy of Lillian Parker

    Leslie Holden

  • Teddy Jo and the Missing Portrait

    Hilda Stahl

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories

    Shirley Hazzard

    From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointmentShirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or su...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Here We Go Again

    Joyce McGill

  • A High Price to Pay

    Sara Craven

    What choice did she really have? Alison Mortimer had felt there was something going on over and above the appalling reality of her father's sudden death. And Nicholas Bristow's presence confirmed her suspicions. Her father, she discover...

  • Homecoming

    Elaine Harper

    Tracy, immature, flighty, and a bit of a snip, falls for the brother of her sister's fiance, but amidst plans for the wedding and the homecoming dance, she comes to suspect Biff of being a boozer. It turns out that he is acting as an undercover agent...

  • 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 ...

  • Husbands and Lovers

    Ruth Harris

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

    Promises and betrayals. A gun in a Tiffany bag.Carlys Webber's sad and insecure beginnings are past but her future is threatened when her husband faces the first failure of his dazzling career. His lust for...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love Is a Distant Shore

    Claire Harrison

    Dare she let down her guard? Reporter Geoff Hamilton had an uncanny knack for getting to the heart of the matter. And Petra Morgan didn't fancy spending an entire month with him while she prepared for her swim across Lake Ontario. Swimming...

  • 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&...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Something Wild and Free

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Skydiving was the most exhilarating way she knew to stop thinking -- and feeling. Faced with this breathtaking challenge, Jennifer Thornton could forget her estranged parents and her brother's death. Until Reid Carrington appeared out of the blue...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Waking Up

    Amanda Carpenter

    Something was happening to their friendship... Robbie Fisher had always been a couple of years and a few changes behind her neighbor, Jason Morrow. Still, he'd lent an ear to all her dreams and troubles right up to the time he'd left for u...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Working It Out

    Linda A. Cooney

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder in Advent

    David Williams

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dervish Daughter

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • 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...

  • Duchess of Kneedeep

    Atanielle Annyn Noel

  • Flight to the Savage Empire

    Jean Lorrah

  • Harlot's Ruse

    Esther Friesner

    Megan's beauty and magical gifts lead her to a world of sorcerers, Madam Glister's House of Prayer, a dragon's stronghold, and to adventures in the lands of mortals, demons, and gods--on her quest to find true happiness...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mystery of the Imposter

    R.L. Stine

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Spring of Butterflies: And Other Chinese Folk Tales

    He Liyi

  • When the Gods Returned

    Charles Beamer

  • 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...

  • The Wicked Enchantment

    Margot Benary-Isbert

  • Wizenbeak

    Alexis A. Gilliland

  • Among Birches

    Rebecca Hill

  • 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....

  • Another War, Another Peace

    Ronald J. Glasser

    Two men--David, a naive, idealistic young doctor, and Tom, a battle-hardened veteran--find their lives forever transformed as they become involved in a mission to bring medical aid to Vietnamese civilians in villages near the military base...

  • As Soon As It Rains

    Kaylie Jones

  • At the Top

    Michael Donovan

  • Aviva's Piano

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Bad Manners

    Maggie Paley

  • Bad Scene at Bong Son

    John Lansing

  • Best of Spider-Man

    Stan Lee

  • The Big Biazarro

    Leonard Wise

  • Billy Goats Gruff

    Susan Hellard

  • Black Dog

    Tony Hickey

  • The Broken Citadel

    Joyce Ballou Gregorian

  • 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...

  • Bunnies on Their Own

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Button Zone

    Wilfred Greatorex

    Russian armies were massed on their borders, waiting for a single shot to send them flooding over Europe. That shot would be fired thousands of miles away - in Washington D.C. Learning that much was easy for intelligence agent Calvin Rudge. Easy, tha...

  • A Capitol Crime

    Lawrence Meyer

  • Cardboard Crown

    Martin Boyd

    In "The cardboard crown" Mr Boyd returns to the theme of Lucinda Brayford. It is the story of an Australian woman of the last century whose need for the traditional civilisation of Europe draws her from her own country. Yet this continual attraction ...

  • Caring

    Ralph W. Moss

  • The Carnivorous Lamb

    Brad Leithauser

  • Chasing the Gilded Shadow

    Hunter Steele

  • Closed System

    Zach Hughes

    Pat Howe, skipper and sole crew member of the space tug Skimmer, sensed trouble as soon as he accepted the commision from the Zede businessmen. Why were they willing to pay so much for him to transport medicine to Taratwo? And why did they insist on ...

  • 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...

  • Continental Drift

    Russell Banks

    “The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” -- James Atlas, The Atlantic MonthlyFrom acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained -- a gripping, indelible story o...

  • Contract on the President

    John Crosby

  • The Cuckoo Sister

    Vivien Alcock

  • Cut in Diamonds

    Margaret Kirk

  • Devious Murder

    George Bellairs

    First published in 1973, Devious Murder is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, tantalising clues and colourful characters.

    Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of a rainy day, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard...

  • Don Martin Grinds Ahead

    Don Martin

  • Dorrie and the Museum Case

    Patricia Coombs

  • 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...

  • Egalia's Daughters

    Gerd Brantenberg

  • Energy Unbound

    L. Hunter Lovins

  • Equal Distance

    Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  • The Fall of Saigon

    David Butler

    A noted journalist draws on his firsthand impressions and experiences to interweave the lives of thirty men and women, both American and Vietnamese, who became caught up in the climactic fall of Saigon in April 1975...

  • Family and Friends

    Anita Brookner

    In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the...

  • Family Resemblances

    Lowry Pei

  • The Feminine

    Richard Kehl

  • Fevers

    Joel Homer

    An embittered Vietnam veteran and journalist, William Straw, and a beautiful anthropologist embark on a perilous odyssey into the Amazon jungle in search of the ruthless, deadly Michael Fevers, an ex-patriate American turned ruler of a primitive nati...

  • Flowers and Fruit

    Colette

  • Forever Flowing

    Vasily Grossman

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Foul

    Lenore Fleischer

  • 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....

  • Freak's Amour

    Tom DeHaven

  • Galaxy Jane

    Ron Goulart

    Interplanetary journalist Jack Summer discovers that smugglers plan to secret their supply of the deadly drug Zombium aboard an immense movie studio starship, and, with the help of his boss's daughter and a robot photographer, he sets out to get ...

  • Gentleman Bear

    William Pene DuBois

  • The Get along Gang and the Tattletale

    Sonia W. Black

  • Going to See the Leaves

    Linda Collins

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Good Death

    Philip Ross

  • Good Night, Lewis!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Home Is to Share...and Share...and Share

    Judie Angell

  • An Honest Woman

    Anne Christie

  • 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...

  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    Angela Carter

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ...

  • Initiation

    Jean de La Fontaine

  • Is Anyone Home?

    Ron Maris

  • 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 ...

  • Jack Rivers and Me

    Paul John Radley

  • Janet Hamm Needs a Date for the Dance

    Eve Bunting

  • Just Me and My Little Sister

    Mercer Mayer

  • Kensho

    Dennis Schmidt

  • Kiss the Clown

    C.S. Adler

    Viki Hill, daughter of a missionary in Guatemala, finds her budding romance with Marc Bruggerman threatened by unresolved parental problems, Marc's self-centeredness, and her growing feelings for Marc's older brother, Joel, a sensitive, generous, dys...

  • Kitty Collins

    Philip Gould

  • 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...

  • Lazy Jack

    Tony Ross

  • Let us Know

    Diane Vreuls

  • 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...

  • Light Years

    Maggie Gee

    Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores So why is her husband Harold walking out on her? Light Years is also about zoos and the zodiac; the seasons and the stars; and how humans ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Littles Visit the Statue of Liberty

    Lorentz Carlson

  • Lizzie and Harold

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Love Is a Durable Fire

    Brian Burland

  • Love Is the Crooked Thing: Stories

    Lee K. Abbott

    Eleven stories tell of romance on a bus trip, a young man who faces death to win his wife, the relationship of a father and son, a pro football player's decision to marry, and a soldier's experiences in Vietnam...