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  • 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. ...

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • As Soon As It Rains

    Kaylie Jones

  • 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...

  • At the Top

    Michael Donovan

  • Aviva's Piano

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Bad Manners

    Maggie Paley

  • Bad Scene at Bong Son

    John Lansing

  • 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...

  • 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.....

  • 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...

  • Best of Spider-Man

    Stan Lee

  • 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....

  • The Big Biazarro

    Leonard Wise

  • Billy Goats Gruff

    Susan Hellard

  • 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...

  • Black Dog

    Tony Hickey

  • 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...

  • 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 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cabin 3033

    Anna Clarke

  • 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 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Chasing the Gilded Shadow

    Hunter Steele

  • 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...

  • Cimarron and the Red Earth People

    Leo P. Kelley

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Cuckoo Sister

    Vivien Alcock

  • 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...

  • Cut in Diamonds

    Margaret Kirk

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Dervish Daughter

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Don Martin Grinds Ahead

    Don Martin

  • Dorrie and the Museum Case

    Patricia Coombs

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Energy Unbound

    L. Hunter Lovins

  • Equal Distance

    Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Flight to the Savage Empire

    Jean Lorrah

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Going to See the Leaves

    Linda Collins

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Greatest Skits on Earth

    Wayne Rice

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Head Em off Tumbleweed

    Tom K. Ryan

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Hero and the Terror

    Michael Blodgett

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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

    Judie Angell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An Honest Woman

    Anne Christie

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Janet Hamm Needs a Date for the Dance

    Eve Bunting

  • 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...

  • Just Me and My Little Sister

    Mercer Mayer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kensho

    Dennis Schmidt

  • 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.....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Kitty Collins

    Philip Gould

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Last War

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • Lazy Jack

    Tony Ross

  • The Legacy of Lillian Parker

    Leslie Holden

  • Let us Know

    Diane Vreuls

  • Letters to Sherlock Holmes

    Roger Lancelyn Green

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love from Elizabeth

    Meredith Gregg

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&...

  • The Magic Book

    Willo Davis Roberts

  • Mando

    Gary McCarthy

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Max in Love

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Max on Earth

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Merari

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp