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  • Hold the Dream

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    EMMA'S GLITTERING DREAM CONOUERS A NEW GENERATION Ablaze with all the sweep, grandeur, and dynamic characters that made A Woman of Substance a legend worldwide, Barbara Taylor Bradford's spellbinding sequel begins as fiery Emma Harte shocks the wo...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hero and the Terror

    Michael Blodgett

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • America 2040

    Evan Innes

    Locked in a fierce struggle with the Soviets and on the brink of nuclear annihilation, the United States sends a courageous group of men and women, led by Captain Duncan Rodrick, on a mission into the uncharted realms of outer space...

  • 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...

  • Last War

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • Max in Love

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Max on Earth

    Marilyn Kaye

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Quadriphobia

    Alan Ryan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dirt Rich

    Clark Howard

    This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man’s personal journey is “wonderful . . . A truly exciting novel” (Orlando Sentinel).   After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Laina

    Eva Gibson

    "A Springflower Book- Romance and Mystery for young teens. When Laina moved to a backwoods logging town, it wasn't the fact of having to leave her best friend which troubled her the most. It was her parents separation that was tearing her apart ins...

  • Lark

    Richard Forrest

    A corrupt cop must investigate a series of bizarre murders in order to save his city from itself in this grim hard-boiled thriller. Middleburg, Connecticut, is a dying river town, and Tommy Lark will be its undertaker. A hardened veteran of the local...

  • Monastery Nightmare

    Ross H. Spencer

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 " it is his way of gainin...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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... ...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love from Elizabeth

    Meredith Gregg

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shelly

    Leila Prince Golding

  • 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.....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Letters to Sherlock Holmes

    Roger Lancelyn Green

  • New Black Mask #4

    Richard Layman

  • 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...

  • Secret of the East Wind

    Carole Gift Page

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kenjiro

    Pat Barr

    Japan in 1862 was a land of cherry blossom, frail obedient women, and the fierce traditions of the old Samurai. When the white Barbarians came in to trade, it seemed bloody conflict was inevitable. As Kenjiro, the young nobleman, looks down from 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...

  • The Moreton Scandal

    Jasmine Cresswell

    The trap was set -- and she was the bait It was strange that the fabulously wealthy Captain Moreton, hero of the Napoleonic Wars should find himself proposing to the first eligible female he met on his return to England. After all, he had vowed to...

  • Opal Fire

    Sandy Dengler

    "Peter, hurry home quickly. I need you." Four months after Polly Chase married an Australian, Peter, he went off to the War. Now, five years later, she is still waiting for his return. Coming back from town to her farm she encounters an itinerant,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Who Is Carla Hart?

    Joanna Barnes

    CARLA HART: to the world, a woman of rare beauty, a talented actress at the height of her career -- a woman of passion and wit, apparently blessed with the perfect husband. CARLA HART: a woman in need, perhaps of too much love -- surely with too m...

  • 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...

  • 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... ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • 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...

  • Catch and Saddle

    L.P. Holmes

    Death came cheap. A lot of men would have figured it a bargain to buy the deed to the Pinderlee spread for a single dollar. Clay Hanford knew better. He knew that the thousands of acres of lush grasslands in the Fandango Basin were a graveyard for an...

  • Cimarron and the Red Earth People

    Leo P. Kelley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Head Em off Tumbleweed

    Tom K. Ryan

  • 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...

  • Longarm in the Texas Panhandle

    Tabor Evans

    LEGENDS DIE HARD ... But when they start robbing trains, that's when Longarm steps in. It's been nearly two years since Longarm out-gunned the Kiowa Kid. But it takes more than bullets to kill a legend. And, from the way an impostor down in Tex...

  • Mando

    Gary McCarthy

  • No Man's Brand

    William Vance

  • The Runaway Rancher

    J.D. Hardin

  • Sioux Captive

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Tiger Butte

    Jack Cummings

  • Top Gun from the Dakotas

    Merle Constiner

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Magic Book

    Willo Davis Roberts

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Merari

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

  • The Million Dollar Lift

    Richard Crighton

  • 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...