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New Books List: 462 titles

  • Helltrain

    Bill Garnett

  • 76 Hours: The Invasion of Tarawa

    Eric Hammel

  • Second Cup of Coffee

    Jean Shaw

  • What Is the Matter with Mary Jane?

    Daisy Waugh

    'It is odd that the galvanised industry of women's literature should have passed by that most telling of female malaises, Anorexia Nervosa... Daisy Waugh breaks the silence with a resounding clatter of imaginative energy. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MARY...

  • Shadow of His Wings

    Bruce Chandler Fergusson

  • Taji's Syndrome

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    It began with six innocent children--and the terror they would bring to life ... A human error, an unreported lab accident. Six pregnant women, six unknown children spreading a plague far deadlier than any doctors have ever seen before--a horror that...

  • The Questing Hero

    Hugh Cook

    Young Togura confronts exotic women, brawny pirates, quarrelsome dragons, and the crusty old Wizard of Drum on his quest for the index to the rediscovered odex of ore, a magical disc filled with the riches and knowledge of bygone civilizations...

  • Perfume of Paradise

    Jennifer Blake

    Terrified of her impending marriage, beautiful Elene Larpent scents her body with a Haitian voodoo perfume guaranteed to bewitch the wealthy landowner and ensure his devotion. But just moments into the wedding, a violent slave uprising interrupts the...

  • The Stalker

    Theodore Taylor

    In a chilling tale of revenge and retribution, a father tracks the man responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of his daughter, a criminal protected by diplomatic immunity, family power and influence, and his own crafty ingenuity...

  • To Be a Man

    William Decker

  • C.A.D.S.

    John Sievert

  • Freedom Fight

    Richard Austin

    BORDER BLOOD-STORM! From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of what Ame...

  • Fire in the Sky

    J.A. Shears

    Dan Locke, an American trapper in the Yukon, threatens to bring war to the region when he falls in love with an Indian girl named Loon-cry and violently takes her from her brutal husband, causing the warriors of her tribe to set off on a terrifying r...

  • Deadly Memories

    J.R. Roberts

    He was called Laramie Jones. They found him half-dead in a pool of blood. Brutally beaten and abandoned on a lonesome trail. He was a man without a memory. A wanderer without a past. Now he's asking the Gunsmith to help him find the life he lost l...

  • Cheyenne Blood Storm

    Chet Cunningham

  • The Seven Silver Mountains

    Alan Vaughan Elston

  • Lone Star and the Cheyenne Trackdown

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki rescue a reformed gunslick from a bloody crossfire in the sixty-seventh 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, and Ki -- the ...

  • Longarm on the Thunderbird Run

    Tabor Evans

  • Laramie Lovers

    Dirk Fletcher

    Arriving in the town of Laramie, Spur McCoy is greeted with bullets, which take the life of his horse, and drowns his sorrows in the arms of brazen beauty Priscilla Shuntington who needs his help in finding her parents, who have mysteriously disappea...

  • The Devil's Envoy

    Jasmine Craig

    Finding a badly beaten man in the Sussex countryside of 1826 was a shock for Charlotte Rippon, but she succoured his needs, only to discover that he didn’t seem to speak English. Prince Karim Alexander, working undercover between London and Istan...

  • Lord John's Lady

    Gayle Buck

    THE PERFECT MAN Lord John Stokes was all that Sophia Wyndham could possibly want. He was handsome. He was wealthy. He was charming. He was honorable. He was kind. And he was brave -- brave enough to risk death to save Sophia from a hideously unsui...

  • The Savage Marquess

    Marion Chesney

    A MOST CURIOUS CHEMISTRY Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. And Miss Lucinda Wester...

  • Sir Sham

    Marian Devon

    WAS HE A SOPHISTICATE? A SMUGGLER? OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY? NOT THAT SHE CARED, MIND YOU! What would Mama have done? Lucy Haydon bet a monkey Mama would have joined the other hostesses casting lures for dashing Mr. More. Certainly the London...

  • Untamed

    Joan Dial

    From the sunwashed deserts of Arizona to the shadowy moors of Yorkshire, from the raw wilderness of the Australian outback to the bloody battlefields of the Boer War, they broke society's rules... Kidnapped by Indians while on her honeymoon in Ame...

  • Solitaire

    Lisa Gregory

    Once In A Lifetime She was born Jennifer Taylor in a small Arkansas town. She was blonde, beautiful, and called "poor white I trash" by every man who wanted her. And every man did. But Jennifer was innocent as only a young girl with big dreams ...

  • Surrender the Dawn

    Jan Mathews

    Policewoman Laura Davis was raped while posing as bait in a sting operation. Federal agent Kyle Patterson felt guilty because he headed that operation. Now, several months later, they're partners in another dangerous undercover maneuver--and even the...

  • Gentleman's Trade

    Holly Newman

    AFTER THE BALL Rain fell in buckets that spring. It bounced off balconies, drenched gardens and, to lovely Vanessa Mannion's dismay, turned New Orleans' main lane into one big puddle. Even with her skirts held high, Vanessa could not prevent mud f...

  • Sweet Secrets

    Elisabeth Kidd

    Perilous Attraction With the gaslights' glow upon her chestnut hair, no woman ever looked lovelier than American heiress Madeleine Malcolm. Her fortune and dazzling beauty attracted many men. Yet she looked for just one--Teddy Malcolm. The young r...

  • Captive Chains

    Sonya T. Pelton

    They were bound together by love's CAPTIVE CHAINS. EAGER TO TEACH Nineteen-year-old Shaina Hill had yearned to be a teacher for as long as she could remember. And as she headed out for the remote area called Thunder Valley in the Washington Te...

  • Gazebo Rendezvous

    Martha Jean Powers

    THE DUKE'S HANDSOME WARD WAS NO LAD, BUT A WOMAN--AND A HEARTBROKEN ONE AT THAT! Of course the formidable Duke of Ruhaven would readily accept his new ward if she were a boy. So plucky Miss Leslie Lathrup contrived a most cunning disguise! But ...

  • Fortune's Desire

    Lindsay Randall

    GLITTERING PRIZE Catherine Diamond had never seen such a beautiful horse anywhere before--and she was determined to have it for herself. But when she challenged the horse's owner in a card game, she didn't expect to gamble with her heart. If truth...

  • Island Captive

    Susan Sackett

    Their passion blazed beneath the Caribbean sun! HE RESCUED HER As she looked into the leering faces of the Mexican Revolutionaries who held her prisoner, Ariel Beresford prayed for a miracle. So when a handsome Englishman stepped in to claim he...

  • Bound by Desire

    Rosemary Rogers

    Out of the tempestuous union of Steve Morgan and Ginny Brandon came Laura--daughter of light, woman of desire, the child born of a blistering, incomparable passion. A ravishing temptress at play in a world of fabulous wealth, like her mother before h...

  • Defiant Angel

    Lisann St. Pierre

    Rafe was the fearless leader of a brigand band who seized a spirited beauty from the clutches of an evil marquis. . . and received a bullet for his pains. Katrina was the rebellious servant girl who'd been caught in a trap, a defiant angel who waril...

  • Silver Mistress

    Carla Simpson

    SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOCKED Only when she’d been locked inside a steamboat trunk for hours did impulsive Laurel Wentworth doubt the wisdom of her means of fleeing her dictatorial uncle. But after she pounded furiously and someone pried open the...

  • A Warm December

    Jacqueline Topaz

    When wealthy executive Dave Anders goes to the vet to pick up his dog, he ends up chasing a monkey and kissing the vet herself! Dr. Merrie McGregor's dazzled by Dave's powerful sensuality but thinks she'll never see him again--until he shows up as Sa...

  • Untamed Heart

    Rochelle Wayne

    SHE CRAVED ADVENTURE When auburn-haired Julianne Ross got her daddy's permission to go to Fort Laramie, the enthusiastic woman reporter could hardly wait to interview her first Indian! But after she met the fort's handsome scout, David Hunter, Julie...

  • In for a Penny

    Margaret Westhaven

    "I'M RESOLVED NEVER TO MARRY" Penelope Lacey declared stoutly to Sir Edward Marchmont--even though he was the object of her amorous girlhood fancies. All Hampshire knew that Pen was mad for the dashing aristocrat, but Marchmont seemed quite disint...

  • The Seduction

    Art Bourgeau

  • The Proving

    Thomas Szollosi

    Edgar Lamp is not your garden-variety mass murderer. Like most serial killers, he isn't too fond of other people. What sets Lamp apart is his technique: he has a unique way of separating his victims from their internal organs. Call it his signature. ...

  • Wolfen

    Whitley Strieber

    In the dark, they are watching...They are waiting for you.No one has ever lived to tell the horrifying truth about them. Yet even now the Wolfen are gathered in the night-dark alleys ... unseen, poised ... ready to destroy their helpless human prey....

  • Winter Wolves

    Earle Wescott

  • Anvil of Hell

    Don Pendleton

  • Strike Force

    Dick Stivers

  • Facemaker

    William Katz

    After undergoing reconstructive plastic surgery, a journalist discovers a cache of photos of women whose faces eerily match her own beautiful new face and further investigation reveals a sinister side to Dr. Andre Loval's practice...

  • Black Ambrosia

    Elizabeth Engstrom

    Angelina is a killer. You’d never know it to look at her -- until you look into her eyes. Angelina doesn’t kill out of hatred or fear -- she kills out of love, bringing solace to her victims, guided by the seductive Voice that speaks only to h...

  • Tet

    Eric Helm

  • In Silence Sealed

    Kathryn Ptacek

    Two ravishing beauties--the Greek sisters Athina and August Kristonosos.Three giants of the Romantic Movement--John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon, Lord Byron.Three great poets, all of whom die young.All three know the Kristonosos sis...

  • Come Endless Darkness

    Gary Gygax

  • Tower to the Sky

    Phillip C. Jennings

  • After the Fact

    Fred Saberhagen

    ASSASSINATION PLOT Once again Fred Saberhagen's remarkable new series character, Pilgrim, is at the center of strange and mysterious affairs. When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he might fue...

  • Invitation to Camelot

    Parke Godwin

    You are cordially invited to a wondrous world of magic and adventure. Enter an enchanted kingdom where swords clash in blazing fury, ancient wizards cast astonishing spells, and valiant knights make battle with dragons to protect a lady fair. So, co...

  • Castle Perilous

    John DeChancie

    YESTERDAY HE WAS AN UNEMPLOYED PHILOSOPHY MAJOR. TODAY HE LIVES IN A CASTLE... ...that's worlds away from home. His best buddy looks like seven feet of walking shag carpet, and the girl in his life's from California. In Castle Perilous, everyone has...

  • Brightsuit Macbear

    L. Neil Smith

    Berdan Geanar has had a difficult life. Unsure of himself, and apparently hated by the grandfather he has lived with since the death of his parents, he has no idea of what to do with his life. But when his grandfather abandons him, taking all the fam...

  • Between the Stars

    Eric Kotani

    On the Saturnian moon Rhea, Derek Kuroda unearths two enigmatic objects of immense power. He joins forces with a genius inventor hoping to use the objects for space exploration, but others are intent on using the artifacts for more sinister purpos...

  • Taltos

    Steven Brust

    JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD. ALL EXPENSES PAID! Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living. The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, an...

  • Night Visions: In the Blood

    Charles L. Grant

  • Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart

    George R.R. Martin

  • Lucky Lady

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    BACK TO SCHOOL When Kelly Mallory's friends needed a favor, they knew they could count on her. But being the "nicest girl on the block" wasn't all it was cracked up to be -- Kelly needed to discover that her feelings mattered, too....

  • Twilight

    Judith Arnold

    Was it love or a bad case of nerves? The way she'd been feeling lately, Susan Duvall couldn't tell. Since the discovery of her boss's unethical business practices, Susan's fast-track career had hit a roadblock and her emotions had been riding a ro...

  • Golden Dreams

    Barbara Benedict

    Lovely gray-eyed Samantha Eggersley was a hopeless dreamer, leaving behind her drab existence for rosy vision of stirring romance and thrilling adventure. But even Samantha never dreamed that she would be swept off her feet by an impossibly handsome ...

  • Momentary Marriage

    Annette Broadrick

    FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Agent Jordan Trent didn't want to take Lauren Mackenzie along on this risky assignment. What was worse, they had to pretend they were married! Not one to mix business with pleasure, he was surprised to find that the real ch...

  • A Deadly Breed

    Caroline Burnes

    Ronnie Sheffield had the scoop of her career At stake was the most controversial bill in Mississippi's history. At risk was State Senator Jeff Stuart, who'd introduced the bill, and who'd been the target of a would-be murderer. But at the center o...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Beverly Bird

    TRAPPED IN A LIE Tyler Cort needed answers. He couldn't understand Samantha Gate's wariness whenever he got close to her, and he'd become determined to learn her secrets. No doubt about it. The woman was hiding something. What Sam couldn't tell...

  • Simple Gifts

    Pamela Browning

    Curtisville, Kansas, is one town in the Heartland It is farming, family and faith. It is the dreams of those rugged settlers who wanted a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a place where night comes slowly and quietly, where ...

  • Intimate Details

    Barbara Boswell

    Wealthy and beautiful Vanessa Ramsey was used to men chasing her, throwing themselves at her feet -- and she'd earned her reputation as a vixen no man could tame. But when her father made Lincoln Scott an offer he couldn't refuse, she was the prize ...

  • Ancient Secrets

    Kate Bradley

    UNDER WATCHFUL EYES Ryan McKay always trusted his instincts. This time they told him the woman he'd seen was guilty of smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts out of Mexico to her Arizona art gallery. Trailing her had been fascinating, but to see justic...

  • Firefly in the Night

    Ginger Chambers

    The situation called for drastic measures What danger so threatened Marlie Richards that her own father had her kidnapped, spirited to a safe house miles from her Houston home and watched twenty-four hours a day? Marlie wouldn't know until she...

  • Untamed Glory

    Suzannah Davis

    DESPERATE PASSION Brenna Galloway clung desperately to Rafe Sinclair's hard muscular frame, forgetting for the moment that he was a man she despised -- the right hand of America's most powerful railroad tycoon -- a man responsible for her brother's ...

  • The Cinderella Dare

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Sometimes dreams do come true... But with unexpected results. When Mary Ellen Spencer was finally able to fulfill all her hopes and dreams and transform herself and her life, she found that it was not so easy to leave the old self behind. Going fr...

  • Fool's Gold

    Lynn Erickson

    A CASE OF GOLD FEVER... That's how Cripple Creek residents diagnosed it, and Abby McAlister had it bad. Holding down two full-time jobs to support her twin boys no longer made sense once Abby learned she actually owned a Colorado gold mine! Ty ...

  • More Than a Mistress

    Joan Mary Hart

    Lisa had been young and in love-- and totally naive--when irresistible Scott Bradshaw proposed. Otherwise, she might have realized that a hardheaded, self-made millionaire would devote more vigor to amassing his fortune than to building a marriage. D...

  • Shadow Passion

    Robin Gideon

    FIRST GLANCE On her way to begin a new life, Shadow almost fell prey to a bunch of wild outlaws looking to steal her only possession: her innocence. But then the beautiful half-breed was saved by the mysterious Sorren McKenna, and her fate was forev...

  • More Than Words

    Elizabeth Glenn

    He had a way without words. Lee Ann Chung was at her wits end with her hopelessly unruly dog, Doofus, so she enrolled him in obedience school. There she met the star canine, but it was his master who exuded a rare brand of animal magnetism. Keller Hu...

  • Unwedded Bliss

    Katherine Granger

    RISKY BUSINESS Marc English was dumbfounded. Monica Bliss, the cool, successful lady lawyer, wanted him to father her child? Monica insisted that this relationship be strictly business: she wanted a child, but she was single, and she intended to s...

  • The Captain's Caress

    Leigh Greenwood

    BITTER FATE Summer Ashton almost welcomed the news of the pirates boarding the Sea Otter. Anything would be better than joining the old man she'd been forced to wed by proxy -- even death at the point of a sword. But as the handsome pirate capta...

  • Return to Raindance

    Phyllis Halldorson

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS Carol Murphy had made something of Herself in the eight years since she'd left Raindance, Nebraska, in the wake of a scandal that had destroyed her young marriage. And she'd almost convinced herself the past was dead and buried ...

  • Catch a Falling Star

    Brooke Hastings

    Kristie Clarke thought she had it all -- a fresh identity and precious summers with Lizzie, the little girl who held the key to her past. She'd be reaching for the moon to expect more. Then Lizzie's adoptive father, cynical Ken Gunnison, ...

  • Under Suspicion

    Lucy Hamilton

    HER DREAM COME TRUE WAS BECOMING A NIGHTMARE! Allison Schuyler felt as if she were watching her medical career go up in smoke before it even got going. She had barely started her internship when chief resident Cruz Gallego began accusing her of be...

  • A Matter of Duty

    Sandra Heath

    A proud beauty weds a handsome lord who promises her everything but love ALTAR-BOUND Handsome and wealthy Lord Christopher Highclare made it painfully clear why he was asking a virtual nobody like Miss Louisa Cherington to be his wife. He had m...

  • Forever Spring

    Joan Hohl

    Now was the winter of discontent for Paul Vanzant. His children were grown, the wife he'd once loved -- but who'd bitterly betrayed him -- was gone. He felt rudderless on a chillingly cold sea... Then he met Karen Mitchell -- a woman in th...

  • Travelin' Man

    Charlotte Hughes

    So what if traveling salesman Brian Anthony was Mr. Body Beautiful with a damnably handsome smile -- Dannie Drysdale wasn't buying! Devastatingly gorgeous, ambitious men weren't her type, she reminded herself -- until Brian's mind-boggling kisses sw...

  • An Irresistible Force

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    IN THE LINE OF DUTY Clay Christensen needed an honest partner for his investigation, one who was above temptation. Now he wondered if he'd chosen too well. Kit O'Connell not only seemed able to resist temptation, but she also seemed able to resist...

  • The Sweetheart Waltz

    Susan Kalmes

    NORTHERN LIGHTS Alaska was a beautiful place to visit, Alexandra admitted, but she wouldn't want to live there. How could she spend her life in a town where the social event of the season -- The Bachelor's Ball -- culminated in an auction for a chan...

  • The Nesting Instinct

    Corey Keaton

    A housewarming party... for two Megan Sinclair was determined to buy her ancestors' home, enticed by the valuable heirloom she thought was hidden inside. So bidding against a big-city investor--no matter how sexy--proved incredibly frustrating. ...

  • Without a Doubt

    Risa Kirk

    WHY WAS EVERYTHING GOING WRONG? Marketing executive Valerie Stafford was frantically racing around Portland International Airport trying to find her visiting niece when she literally ran into the handsomest man she'd ever seen. Mortified, she had ...

  • Hidden Fires

    Betina Krahn

    SHE FOUGHT TEMPTATION Eden Marlow was dismayed by her fascination with the audacious Ramsay MacLean. Apparently that line English finishing school had done little to smooth the unladylike edges from her colonial soul. Why else would she be drawn to ...

  • Over the Rainbow

    Sandra Lee

    Right time, wrong place After barely surviving a devastating tornado, Dana Cunningham swore she'd never set foot in Oklahoma again. But twelve years later she was back home, with the courage to face her demons. Or so she thought, until a storm sent ...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Debbie Macomber

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Once upon a time there was a beautiful, rebellious New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame; Judy Lovin valued friendship, integrity and her job as a preschool teacher. Then her father's business collapsed, ...

  • The Pride of His Life

    Bevlyn Marshall

    From her cameo brooch to her canopy bed, Victoria Langford was primly old-fashioned--hardly wisecracking, macho Serge Zhdanov's type. But a tumble over tangled leashes in Boston's Public Garden led to a startling kiss . . . and an attraction more pot...

  • Lovespell

    Andrea Parnell

    How could Diana be doing this, when she was still celebrating her marriage to Jonathan? How could she surrender to the passion of Drew Symons, the wild and handsome half-gypsy cousin of the gentle man she had wed? Was she the victim of a spell cast o...

  • Winter Is Not Forever

    Janette Oke

    WINTER IS NOT FOREVER With schooling behind him, josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has...

  • Sapphire Lightning

    Fayrene Preston

    She was his cousin's beautiful widow, an enchantress with topaz eyes -- and Linc Sinclair knew instantly she was all he ever wanted. Heat and desire had come up as suddenly as a summer storm, and his turbulent soul demanded he possess Toni Sinclair -...

  • Kiss Me Again, Sam

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    It had to be jet lag, or some crazy dream; Samuel Garter decided when he discovered adorable Austin Tyler hanging upside down from a huge hole in the ceiling over his bed! But she was deliciously real, an unlikely construction worker with silky aubur...

  • Blindman's Bluff

    Lass Small

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS Kimberly Miller and Logan Pederson would each get a sizable legacy - but only if they spent two weeks together, with no less than two hours per day alone. There was one small problem: they were perfect strangers. Logan wasn't...

  • Cajun Nights

    Susan Richardson

    Jeannie Kilmartin was dangerous -- and the most desirable woman Elliot Escudier had ever met! When the impetuous travel writer invaded his idyllic Louisiana marshes in search of a story, he knew she spelled trouble... and he was just the man to give...

  • Irish Rose

    Nora Roberts

    Burke Logan was a gambler, and luck had made him owner of Three Aces, one of the finest stables in Maryland. He'd come to Ireland to buy horses, but one look at Erin McKinnon's fiery beauty told him that he'd be leaving with a whole lot more. Erin M...

  • Against All Odds

    Patricia Rosemoor

    ALASKA'S GLACIERS LEFT HER COLD Dagny Havland had come a long way from the harsh rural conditions of her childhood. Her success in business was hard won and she wasn't about to give it up--especially for Thor Lindquist. Thor had tossed aside mo...

  • Spirit of Love

    JoAnn Ross

    She was the woman of his dreams As a deputy district attorney, Justine Lamoreaux dealt in facts, not fantasy. So she had little patience for the claims of one Colin Tiernan. They'd never laid eves on each other, but he kept insisting he'd been dre...

  • To Love Them All

    Eva Rutland

    What kind of man would want to hire a wife? A man like Stephen Prescott. A successful, driven, man who believed that "this love stuff doesn't last." A globe-trotting bachelor uncle with an orphaned niece and nephew suddenly thrust into...

  • The Man of Her Dreams

    Glenda Sands

    KNIGHT IN TARNISHED ARMOR Critics called her "the emerging grand mistress of the sensitive, sensual scene," but for Charity Lovejoy, romantic interludes had always been confined to the pages of her books. She knew how love was supposed to be, and...

  • Jed's Sweet Revenge

    Deborah Smith

    When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...

  • If You Love Me

    Joan Smith

    'TIS THE SEASON Christmas was supposed to be a happy time. But for Robin Halton, returning home for the holidays--and her brother's wedding--would only conjure up dreams of what might have been. When she'd broken her engagement to Sean Blake three...

  • Chain Letter

    Elaine K. Stirling

    Break the chain...and he'd break your neck Vicky Green had been leading a pleasant but quiet life, running her gift store in Madison, Wisconsin, and nursing her drooping plants. If she hadn't received the chain letter, she never would have met Jus...

  • Something Good

    Brenda Trent

    NO PLACE LIKE HOME After a lifetime of drifting, indulging her parents' farfetched schemes and consequent disappointments, Rachel Fentress was ready to settle down to something good, something worthwhile. She craved the security of a promising job...

  • Heat Lightning

    Lynda Trent

    Like man primeval, he called himself Adam. But who, Maya fretted, was he really, this Glorious stranger who'd stumbled, badly beaten, out of the night? She'd given him shelter--she was in danger of giving him her heart--but was their lightning-fast l...

  • Tame the Wild Wind

    Katherine Vickery

    Hungrily, his lips closed on hers... and Cecilia shivered as her body responded to a wanton desire as sudden as a summer storm... For beautiful country schoolteacher Cecilia Amanda Sinclair, life was as flat as the desert horizon, and as predictab...

  • Hot-Blooded

    Mary Anne Wilson

    A DEBT TO PAY Nick Dantry's life had been saved, but in the process another man's had been lost. First, though, the man had told Nick about a vast treasure hidden deep in the Brazilian rain forest. Nick vowed to find it and use it to help the old ...

  • Look Homeward, Love

    Pat Warren

    Of all possible partners for a cross-country trucking run, Jake Murphy would've been Kara Finelli's last choice. The man was arrogant, defiant and at least as stubborn as she. Worse, his rugged sexuality could easily distract her from her dreams of h...

  • There Is a Season

    Cara West

    HER WORST SINS HAD BEEN THOSE OF OMISSION.... Temporary office worker and would-be novelist Kate Hennessey had a creative imagination, especially when it came to men. But, despite bohemian fantasies, her old-fashioned values always won out. It ...

  • Murder

    Harold Adams

  • The Last Private Eye

    John Birkett

    Nasty horseplay at the Derby lands Rhineheart in a race against time to stop a murderous scheme … Michael Rhineheart is a Louisville private eye with a taste for bourbon and a nose for trouble. He's as tough and savvy as they come. His sleuthing se...

  • The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antique dealer....

  • Plugged Nickel

    Robert Campbell

    When someone pulls the emergency brake up on the California Zephyr, Jake Hatch is catapulted out of the train--onto a severed corpse. All mystery buffs will enjoy the adventures of Jake Hatch, a railroad detective with a widow at every whistle stop....

  • The Big Drop

    Peter Corris

    'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.' A client falls from the twentieth storey of a building; a rock star goes missing; an erotic Mongol scroll vanishes; a film star has a problem that has nothing to do with creativity - it's all in a day's wo...

  • Adventures of Satan Hall

    Carroll John Daly

  • Graveyard to Let

    Carter Dickson

    Shortly after leaping into his swimming pool and vanishing without a trace, American arts patron and accused embezzler Frederick Manning is found dead in a nearby graveyard and his old friend, British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, investigates...

  • Quiller's Run

    Adam Hall

    On a freelance mission in Southeast Asia. Probing the shadowed secrets of a devastating arms deal. Stalking a beautiful smuggler who seduces, then kills, any man who crosses her. Especially a man who knows too much. Like Quillen.....

  • Over the Edge

    Jonathan Kellerman

    BRACE YOURSELF FOR SHOCK -- when Alex Delaware gets a phone call from a former patient, a young, troubled genius who suffered a devastating mental collapse... when he drives through the night to save his life and winds up in a morass of murder....

  • Deadline for a Critic

    William X. Kienzle

    "Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery." -- Publishers Weekly"... good character analysis and a tantalizing story make this one of Kienzle's best." -- Library Journal"As Kienzle addresses serious modern issues, he sto...

  • A Radical Departure

    Lia Matera

    REQUIEM FOR A RADICAL San Francisco lawyer Julian Warneke used to defend draft resisters and Black Panthers--until the copyright protection of their fitness books became more lucrative. After lunching at a chichi restaurant, Julian drops dead o...

  • Doors

    Ed McBain

    A cautious New York burglar risks his neck for the score of a lifetime in this rollicking thriller by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apartments -- ne...

  • D.O.A.

    Dave Pedneau

    THE TEAM: Whit Pynchon, the D.A.'s top cop (and bane of the town's police force) is back on another murder case, more heinous than any he can remember. Dogging his footsteps is Annie Tyson-Tyree, local crime reporter and Whit's lover as well, determ...

  • Criminal Elements

    Bill Pronzini

  • The Physalia Incident

    Art Spikol

    The mysterious death of a scuba diver off Bermuda plunges "World" magazine science editor Alex Block into a baffling case of mistaken identity, unexpected events, and murder that he attempts to unravel using his computer partner, STELLA...

  • Death on Account

    Margaret Yorke

    Robbie is a quiet man, passive and unassuming. He is the sort of man who is taken for granted by the people around him, passed by for promotions and bossed around by his wife. Middle-aged, Robbie has never known love, or passion, or power. Oh, in his...

  • The Small Hours of the Morning

    Margaret Yorke

  • Cookie

    Jan Adkins

    Tough smart, and sexy rancher Cookie Culler has to deal with a host of dangerous visitors to her ranch in Washington state's high country when her crooked brother shows up after having swindled a bunch of drug-smuggling dentists...

  • The Third Friday

    George J. Bellak

  • Pork City

    Howard Browne

    When former Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is gunned down on the streets of Al Capone's Chicago, in June 1930, tough Tribune publisher Colonel Robert McCormick becomes determined that someone will pay for the crime...

  • First Prize

    Edward Cline

    In First Prize, Chess Hanrahan, a private detective in New York City, searches for a missing prize-winning writer, who has not claimed the much-coveted award. He learns that he has been murdered, not by an envious writer, but by the most unlikely per...

  • Shadow Money

    George Alec Effinger

    While attending college in Michigan, van Eyck concocts a plan to get rich quick by stealing computer tapes containing the payrolls of the three major auto companies and ransoming them back during labor negotiations...

  • The Deadly Ackee

    Joan Hadley

    A PREPPIE HOUSE PARTY IN JAMAICA IS ENOUGH TO DRIVE A BODY TO MURDER.... The last thing bachelor-botanist Theo Bloomer wants to do is chaperon his niece and her house party on la Caribbean vacation. Nevertheless, bullied by his sister and seduced ...

  • Hot Money

    Dick Francis

    With his five ex-wives and the nine children between them, it's no great surprise that spectacularly wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke should preside over a motley clan in constant conflict with one another. But when violent death strikes the l...

  • Murder in Yiddish

    Isidore Haiblum

    Things become complicated when private eye James Shaw tries to rescue the elderly Mrs. Silbert from burglars while staking out a crooked cop only to discover one of the thieves dead in the cop's apartment and a mysterious letter written in Yiddish...

  • Deep Dive

    Doug Hornig

    When he discovers a drowned man while scuba diving, private investigation Loren Swift becomes convinced the death was not an accident and his investigations lead them to a psychic research organization...

  • Murder at the Gardner

    Jane Langton

    TADPOLES IN THE COURTYARD POOL? A MUSTACHE PASTED ON THE VAN DYCK? A MURDER IN THE EARLY ITALIAN ROOM? After a series of seemingly harmless pranks at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the trustees call in ex-detective and Harvard lecturer ...

  • Polo Anyone?

    Jerry Kennealy

    Banker Paul Randall offers Polo a rich fee to sit in on a poker game and discover whether computer tycoon Ron Dettman is cheating. He is, but Polo outfoxes the cardsharp and wins thousands from him. Collecting the money, though, pulls the detective i...

  • Bird in the Net

    Frank Parrish

    Dan Mallet, the clever and witty thief who lives in a ramshackle cottage in Wessex, England, works to solve the murders of two American visitors and to clear the prime suspect, the wife of a local minister...

  • Murders and Acquisitions

    Haughton Murphy

    During a weekend in the country, Reuben Frost investigates the murder of a frozen-food king who got himself into hot water   Reuben Frost misses a lot of things about life as a corporate lawyer, but working for Andersen Foods Corporation is not ...

  • Dancer's Debt

    John Lutz

    Helen Crane, a beauty ''men build dreams around,'' hires private eye Alo Nudger to find out what's troubling her lover Jake Dancer. Middle-aging, old-shoe Nudger tails Dancer and manages to save him from a couple of strong-arm men. Dancer handsome, f...

  • The Meatman

    Mike Mallowe

  • Paradise of Death

    Frank Orenstein

  • The Juliet Effect

    Jesse Slattery

  • Divided Treasure

    David Williams

    While investigating complaints of pension fraud reported by workers at a candy factory in North Wales, British banker and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure stumbles onto two corpses and a hidden web of greed and infidelity...

  • The Black House

    Patricia Highsmith

    "A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental." -- John Gross, New York Times Book ReviewHorrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particula...

  • Savage Eden

    Cassie Edwards

    Innocence Lost Alone in the Kentucky wilderness, beautiful Pamela trembled under the gaze of the strong, silent red-skinned warrior -- and hungered for his touch. Strong Bear was magnificent, a handsome, virile Indian chief. And to Pamela, he was t...

  • A Taste of Fire

    Sandra Dustin

    IRRESISTIBLE GRINGO Knowing how to ride and shoot as well as any man, Antonie Ramiriz had come to Texas to offer her deadly skills to Royal Bancroft -- the man who had saved her life and who now needed her protection. The first time she had seen the...

  • Three Daughters

    Consuelo Sarah Baehr

    From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women.Born in rural Pale...

  • The Butcher's Theater

    Jonathan Kellerman

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty. The first to die brutally is a girl. She is drained of blood, ...

  • A Virtuous Lady

    Elizabeth Thornton

    HARDENED RAKE Briony Langland knew she was expected to take her place in England's polite society. But the straight-laced Quaker miss had no patience for London's constant social whirl of halls, soirees, and the dashing young blades who f...

  • Upstaged

    Kristi Andrews

  • Pretenses

    Francine Pascal

    Too much mystery ... Cara Walker feels that her boyfriend, Steven Wakefield, isn’t paying enough attention to her. Suddenly he’s acting aloof and withdrawn. Cara’s good friend Jessica, Stevens sister, suggests that Cara add some mystery to the...

  • Together Forever

    Francine Pascal

    Newlyweds Jeff and Caitlin find their happiness threatened when Jeff is left paralyzed after a near-fatal accident, and his only hope of recovering lies in the hands of his longtime enemy, Dr. Julian Stokes...

  • Center of Attention

    Francine Pascal

  • Hex Witch of Seldom

    Nancy Springer

    This contemporary fantasy by award-winning author Nancy Springer sweeps readers along on a girl’s journey of enlightenment and transformation Raised in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania by her grandpap, Bobbi Lee Yandro has been seeing things...

  • The Clue in the Camera

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FLIES INTO THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE--AND LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN UNDERWORLD MOB! When award-winning photojournalist Emily Foxworth invites Nancy, George, and Hannah to visit San Francisco, they look forward to a picture-perfect holiday ...

  • Alien Child

    Pamela Sargent

    Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute’...

  • Falling for You

    M.E. Cooper

    Shy, bookish Frankie Baker, a newcomer to Kennedy High, falls for Josh Ferguson and together they help a Kennedy student who has become the victim of a terrible prank planned by some of Frankie's former classmates...

  • Max and Me and the Wild West

    Gery Greer

  • Extra Credits

    Mike Lupica

  • The Peron Novel

    Tomas Eloy Martinez

    A fictional account, using actual names and events, of the 1973 return from exile of Argentina's most enigmatic leader and his struggle to retain control over his party, his nation, and his own life and mind...

  • The Preacher's Boy

    Terry Pringle

    Michael Page has trouble with the two most important relationships in his life -- with his minister-father and his girlfriend who wants to sing rock and roll. His attempts to work them out brought widespread recognition to a book with as much humor a...

  • Gift of the Golden Mountain

    Shirley Streshinsky

    California in the 1960s and 70s forms the background to a saga of one family’s passions, past and present, played out against the explosive era of the Vietnam War. It follows the young part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her il...

  • The Ark Sakura

    Kobo Abe

    A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.

    In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge und...

  • Pigeon Blood

    Gary Alexander

  • The Beginner's Book of Dreams

    Elizabeth Benedict

    Eight-year-old Esme Singer embarks on a ten-year search for inner truth, as she accepts--then rejects--the self-deluding role models of her alcoholic mother and an absent father who dreams of getting rich...

  • Cecile

    Janine Boissard

    In the final installment of the adventures of the Moreau family, eighteen-year-old Cecile, youngest of the four sisters, still displays her irreverence and rebellion but begins to experience the unfairness and turmoil of life and love...

  • Silly Baby

    Judith Caseley

  • It's George!

    Miriam Cohen

  • The Medicine Knife

    Don Coldsmith

    The Elk-dog People have two new members, Sky-Eyes and Woodchuck, once soldiers in the imperial French Army but now fully assimilated into the tribe. When the People are threatened, the two must use both their French and Elk-dog ways to save their new...

  • Fang, the Gnome

    Michael Greatrex Coney

    THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE EARTH HAD THREE MOONS, and when the seductive sorceress Avalona could alter futures and bend "happentracks" with her spells. Indeed, in this vast chaotic universe called The Greataway, with its many imaginable futures, anyt...

  • Travels

    Michael Crichton

    Fueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling. This is a record of those travels--an exhilarating quest across the famili...

  • Overnight

    Richard De Combray

  • Surprise of Burning

    Michael Doane

  • Assignment: Or on the Observing of the Observer of Observers

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

    When F. accepts the assignment to investigate the alleged rape and murder of Otto von Lambert's wife, she becomes entangled in a world of mistaken identity, terrorism, political intrigue, and espionage...

  • King of the Murgos

    David Eddings

    BEGINNING OF THE QUEST The infant son of Garion and Ce'Nedra had been foully kidnapped. Now they began the great quest to rescue the child, with the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and inevitably the little Dra...

  • Mother Crocodile

    Rosa Guy

  • The Black House

    Patricia Highsmith

    "A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental." -- John Gross, New York Times Book ReviewHorrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particula...

  • Collected Stories of William Humphrey

    William Humphrey

    The essential anthology of early short fiction by an American master Set primarily in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, these extraordinary stories display the unique blend of irony, nostalgia, and sharp-edged lyricism that established ...

  • Seven Days to Petrograd

    Tom Hyman

    During the First World War, American agent Harry Bauer is called on to infiltrate a train carrying a party of Russian revolutionaries, kill their leader--a man named Lenin--and complete a mission that could change history...

  • Man Called Dundee

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Trail of the Dragon

    Susan Kelly

    A MISSING TEACHER SENDS SCANDAL TO SCHOOL Liz Connors can't say exactly why she's gotten herself mixed up in a search for a missing person. But when her former employer Carl DiBenedetto, head of the English Department of a Boston-area college, ask...

  • Acts of Faith

    Hans Koning

    Haunted by his refusal to help a Basque nationalist years before, former journalist turned New York librarian John Balthasar stumbles upon a connection between Spanish exiles in New York and Cubans in Florida, the FBI, and a conspiracy involving nucl...

  • Where's Peter?

    Edith Kunhardt

  • A Scent of Lilac

    Elizabeth Law

    She'd come to uncover the family scandal -- and found a rake with a secret of his own... A DARK SECRET IN HER PAST Mr. Chance Harland was a most infuriating gentleman! Lilac Morton had traveled all the way to Yorkshire to discover the deep, d...

  • The Avenue, Clayton City

    Eric C. Lincoln

    The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln’s fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and...

  • The Wild Baby Gets a Puppy

    Barbro Lindgren

  • Hello, Goodbye

    David Lloyd

  • On Top

    Marilyn MacGregor

  • Better Than a Brother

    Edith S. McCall

  • The People in the Picture

    Haydn Middleton

  • The Book and the Brotherhood

    Iris Murdoch

    A story about love and friendship and MarxismMany years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?”...

  • Playroom

    Gloria Murphy

    Victoria Louise, then nearly 25 and her favorite companion, a doll she called Rosalie return to her hometown. Hounded and harassed because of her morbid obesity, Victoria Louise was coming home to show she had arrived. Nearly 100 pounds slimmer, Vict...

  • Incentives

    Clare Nonhebel

  • The Fox Hunt

    Sven Nordqvist

  • Murphy's Gold

    Gary Paulsen

  • Jennifer's Rabbit

    Tom Paxton

  • Gallant Bride

    Jane Peart

    Would she ever be accepted as a wife....as a Montrose...as a woman? It is a long journey from Blythe Dorman's ranch home in Lucas Valley, California, to the ancestral Virginia mansion of her new husband, Malcolm Montrose. There are mountains of de...

  • Under the House

    Leslie Hall Pinder

    UNDER THE HOUSE is the story of the Rathbones, a prominent Saskatchewan family who live with a secret they're determined to keep. Only young Evelyn finds the courage to break down the wall of silence that keeps the truth at bay. Her ally is Aunt Maud...