150 YEARS OF STRIFE HAVE LEFT JAPAN A WAR-TORN WASTELAND. OUT OF THE ASHES A NEW HERO IS BORN -- DESTINED TO BE THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN OF ALL TIME... In 1605 the war between eastern and western Japan ended on the bloody battlefield of Sekigahara....
Their first meeting was a disaster Mirry knew it wouldn't be easy to make Jay Elphick feel at home when he came at last to inherit Wenlow Hall -- but she was prepared to try. It was unfortunate that they got off on the wrong foot. Then, to...
LAW AND DISORDER Tweedmore & Slyde. We're talking the hottest corporate law firm in Silicon Valley. We're talking sharp-as-nails lawyers in steel-and-glass offices turning multimillion- dollar deals like wheatcakes on a griddle. It looks like T & S...
An illustrated introduction to the world under the sea and the special diving machines that probe the ocean depths. Includes information on sea creatures and their different habitats, underwater labs, fishing techniques, and searching for sunken trea...
She hopes to escape her own psychic powers in the tranquil Virginia countryside. But she can't outrun the evil she forsees... "YOU MUST STAY. YOU KNOW YOU MUST. YOU'RE COMMITTED TO STOPPING WHATEVER HAS BEGUN. YOU'LL FIND THE MURDERER YOU SENSE....
IN THE SENSUOUS WORLD OF LONG-AGO NEW ORLEANS, DREAMS WERE PROMISED, AND PASSION GREW HOT ON THE STREET KNOWN AS THE SCARLET THREAD And it was here, in this exotic city, that the dark-haired Creole beauty Desiree La Fleur came to reform her "Siste...
SKY FUGITIVE JET-JOCK WILL BUCKO HAD WON HIS FAC WINGS THE HARD WAY-GOING AGAINST PUNKERS AND MUTANTS IN THE NO-MAN'S-LAND OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT. BUT WHEN HIS OLD BUDDY, GUNNERY SERGEANT BLACK PUGH, GOT BUSTED AND FACED THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE, BUC...
Danger, death and love awaited her on the stormy Island of Lost Rubies Did he really love her--or did he possess her soul? Eileen had not been back to her island home since childhood, when her baby sister vanished in a storm, her grief-battered...
For years, Margo Corman has lived in fear of losing her husband Hank before the doctors at Downtown Medical Center could find a new heart for him. At last her prayers are answered; a donor is found. The operation is a success, but now Margo must face...
When someone begins buying real estate in the abandoned section of Nightside City on the planet Epimetheus, Carlisle Hsing decides to investigate the possibility of a secret plan to save the doomed city...
Career woman Sabrina Ames considered herself the soul of pragmatism--and thus the world's worst match for whimsical, enchanting Kenneth "Casey" Casswell. The sexy toy inventor created dreams for kids. . . and dreamed of having kids of his own. How co...
"I will always love you, Thomas Fraser. That is my curse!" Jane Maxwell can remember no time when Thomas Fraser was not at her side. Their wild childhood pranks through Edinburgh's cobbled streets scandalized the city, and when Jane grows to radi...
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownf...
When the patients of psychiatrist Dr. Max Bodine decide they can no longer remain passive about their situations--lonely, empty lives--they take action, leading to some startling solutions to their problems...
HOW THE DEVIL COULD A FELLOW MAKE LOVE TO A GIRL WHO GIGGLED WHEN HE TRIED TO KISS HER?! Fiona Bradford was more amused than offended by handsome Roland Fairleigh Mathieson's passionate ardour. He was acting, she suspected--a talent that seemed to...
They shared a passion they could never deny! HE TOOK HER BY SURPRISE Meg Britton grew up on the railroads, working proudly at her father's side. Nothing was going to stop them from setting the rails clear to Silver Creek, Texas -- certainly...
Now that her life with Brian was over, she would have a home of her own. She could begin again. But something was waiting for Sarah in her new house, waiting to welcome her, to make her feel at home. Something was waiting for Sarah in the night with ...
A brother and sister whose childhood wickedness surpasses understanding, meet again years later. Fascinated with their power as adults, the evil they share boils into flower.
"Imaginative and well-presented...realistic dialogue and interior monolo...
BEING AN OUTCAST SUITED SUMMER FINE Folks in Beasley Creek routinely gave Summer Ashlin wide berth. The healing powers she'd inherited had benefited many over the years, yet fear and distrust were still her closest neighbors. But when Clay Patt...
A tiny moan escaped Teresa 's lips as she heard him whisper, "Cara mia." And she let his mouth cover hers in a kiss so fierce, it demanded more.... With her wild raven hair and sensuous Mediterranean beauty, Teresa Verdi had little trouble catchin...
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY When bed-and-breakfast inn owner Lilly Neilson was told that an extra-special surprise was in store for her, she wasn't expecting it in the form of no-nonsense businessman Greg Bradford. Fun and sun-loving Lilly had found a ca...
Becoming rich and famous hadn't erased the pain and poverty of Angel's past--or dimmed the memory of the girl who'd enflamed and betrayed him. Outwardly, he'd returned to his hometown to build a minority center, but inside he knew he'd come back for ...
Andy O'Riley was dead . . . Suddenly, tragically, violently . . . and no one knew why. His partner, private investigator Melanie Cardenas, was desperate for answers. His estranged son, Patrick, was out for revenge. Their qualifications were excell...
When a London-base American intelligence agent is tragically set up, Sir Joseph Sainsbury is hired to investigate the sensational death of the Tory Minister of Defense and discovers alarming truths about Britain's national security network and its li...
A SHOCKING TECHNO-MILITARY THRILLER THAT ONLY CRAIG THOMAS COULD WRITE -- THIS SWEEPING EPIC OF NONSTOP SUSPENSE WILL TAKE YOU FROM THE TOP HEADQUARTERS OF LONDON AND MOSCOW TO THE INFERNOS OF EAST BERLIN AND NEPAL ... An East German defector dies...
Derek Stone didn't want to be on an oil rig off the coast of Tunisia, watching his bride die in a terrorist attack. He didn't want to be two hundred feet deep in the Mediterranean, out of oxygen and with two divers intent on killing him waiting above...
Refugees in their own land, the Okies, epitomized in Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath , also receive sympathetic treatment in this sprawling first novel. Forced off their Midwestern farm by the Depression, the Robertson family migrates to the ...
HARRIET BLUSHED AT THE MEMORY... Of how it had felt to have that dreadful man touch her. How he had at first thought she was a boy! Rick Dawson, a vacationing American who'd just arrived at the airport in London, climbed into Harriet's ...
For the Russians, it was the espionage coup of the century... An espionage operation has gone horribly wrong ... Soviet agents take a bold gamble and seize an American ship. Now the USS Gettysburg sits at a dock in Cam Ranh Bay. A computerized,...
This widely acclaimed bestseller spans two countries and two generations, following a group of Chinese women who meet to play mah jong, invest money and tell the secret stories of their lives. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club....
Damaris Crocker, a young girl living in smuggling country, whose dearest wish is for a flame-colored taffeta petticoat, works with her friend Peter and Genty Small the Wise Woman to save the life of a wounded young man brought to them by the smuggler...
Murder in the Walls is the story of a murdered prostitute and a cop determined to find the killer. Flora Hobbs owned one of New Mexico's oldest Spanish-style houses, and shared it with a bevy of beautiful working girls. When one of them turned up dea...
The untamed passion of the West was no match for the desire that burned within them. A Wild Love Struggles To Be Born For Megan Riley, the wagon train bound for Oregon seemed the only chance to leave the past behind, but the innocent beauty was...
Young Jason Melman inherits command of his father's sealing ship, but a blizzard steers the vessel on a strange course guarded by the ethereal, possibly imaginary Mirabelle, and Jason faces enemies at every turn...
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY... . Whoever said that blondes have more fun? Erika Lange had spent years trying to prove that there was an intelligent person behind her stunning face and fabulous silver-blond hair. So when her picture appeared in an ...
What was wrong with Kyle Grey? Elizabeth had met the handsome lifeguard at Pine Valley Music Camp. But there was something stragne about Kyle. How could Elizabeth help him and still give her best to her piano studies?....
Libby would learn some lessons about loving and growing, but she would also find happiness--and love--beyond her wildest dreams. Book 18 in the Elizabeth Gail Series, in which a foster child finds love, acceptance, and healing in a Christian family....
WAGER OF LOVE Southern charmer Veronique Delacroix had a reputation in New Orleans as being unconventional. Self-reliant and independent, she thought life was a gamble and men were a challenge. But when she took her boss, Brandon Rhodes, up on his...
Her feelings for him were far from innocent Making children happy was one of Sasha Peters's goals in life, and telling them stories through her handmade dolls was her special talent. However, it didn't pay the bills. So when a toy corporation offe...
RETURN TO SENDER Ellie Waring couldn't believe her eyes! After she and law student Patrick Barron had parted company, she'd been brokenhearted. Now Patrick was standing on her doorstep, insisting she return some love letters he'd written to her. E...
THE INCOMPARABLE LADY MELORA Titled, wealthy, beautiful, Lady Melora Worth had every qualification necessary to nab herself a good parti. For what prospective bridegroom could fail to appreciate her golden curls and pouting lips, to say nothing of...
When Meredith Collins piloted the attractive, impatient stranger to a glittering Lake Tahoe casino, she never gambled on returning as his fiancee! Though enigmatic Jeremy Winchester assured her their "engagement" was purely a business matter, the he...
When Matthew and Daniel, two fast friends despite their deep differences, fall for the same woman, they embark on a battle of adventure and deception that leads them from blue-blooded New England to Nazi-infested South America. Reprint....
Fourteen-year-old Gilly, already going through a difficult time, must deal with her parent's separation, her father's new girlfriend, an exotic, show-stealing new neighbor named Victory, and the difficult issue of allegiances to friends...
It's six months since Combined Action Platoon T-9 was established in Hou Bun village. Six months of nearly-nightly battles between the Marines and Popular Forces of CAP Tango Niner and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units. The VC and NVA almost ...
Kate finds life dreary in her small Nevada desert town until contact with an Indian artifact sends her visions of a restless shaman from the past, visions which eventually drag her and her friend Jimmy Fong into that far distant Nevada....
Jack Morgan, director of CorpProbe, a corporate intelligence company, investigates the Sweeta Sugar Cane Company in the war-torn Central American dictatorship of Santa Paloma, unaware that he is being set up by the CIA...
STORMY SEAS Geraldine Hastings's life had been smooth sailing until her parents' untimely deaths. Since then she'd struggled to keep her head and the family-owned boat building company above water, but now the firm was sinking. Only a man from ...
Many good men would die, or survive forever scarred, in the fight for Hill 875Ty is the grunt. The point man for his platoon with the uncanny instincts to see, hear, and smell out the hidden enemy. Jason is the favored one. The football hero picked f...
Combining glamour and ruthlessness, Natalie and Wallace Nevsky were both respected and feared throughout the sophisticated, dangerous world of the fur trade. Having just launched their latest and most spectacular range of stunning furs to an ecstatic...
Jack Paine, is battling alcoholism after a troubled youth, and his current case makes the struggle harder. Calling for an envelope as instructed by a phone call from a client, Morris Grumbach, Paine finds Grumbach dead, an apparent suicide. He has le...
Eight short stories include the title story, in which the twenty-one-year-old widow Higbee matches wits with a preacher who inquires about the tithe on the double-indemnity insurance she recently collected...
She gave him her trust -- then he stole her heart! LAW-ABIDING LADY Abra Beaumont could spot a thief a mile away. After all, her father was once one of the best. But he'd been on the right side of the law for years now, and she wasn't abo...
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For centuries two meg-powers from the future have been waging war for control of timelines of history. Alan Norlund, a WWII airman vet, is promised a lifesaving cure for his granddaughter, if he will undertake a mission 50 years back in time to t...
A NEW BREED OF SUPER-WARRIOR WAGING THE WAR OF THE FUTURE -- WITH SURVIVAL AS THE ONLY PRIZE! The Zone -- a strip of Western Europe where armies have faced each other and fought their wars for centuries past. It has become the devil's playground f...
When Cody Johnson first caught sight of structural engineer Abra Wilson, he thought of endless possibilities. She had style and confidence--and was distracting as hell. She'd called his design an impractical piece of fancy, but then, he'd always pref...
#3 in the Saxon mystery series. Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school grad...
Clint Adams has his eye on the loveliest example of womanhood in town. But in Takersville, New Mexico, nothing is free for the asking. What Charlie Taker don't own, ain't worth having. Now the Gunsmith's got to out-shoot Charlie Taker in a gentlemanl...
AFTER YEARS OF OBSERVING US, ABDUCTING US, AND EXPERIMENTING UPON US, THEY HAVE FINALLY MADE THEIR FIRST MISTAKE... As the sun sets on a lonely Connecticut farmhouse the shadows come, gliding through windows, sliding up walls, enveloping Sarah Gil...
THE INCONSTANT MOON Astride her white steed, she had ridden just beyond his grasp. Even after she declared her love for him, he still had to win her. Once Cam had likened the ancient myth to his own relationship with Casie, though he'd never gott...
Cousins Chrissy and Caroline visit Caroline's boyfriend at the Fort Collins Air Force Academy, and Chrissy is thrilled to meet handsome senior cadet William Powell, but Caroline's romance is headed for a crash...
He could ruin her whole career Jillv Marshall was stunned just thinking about it. She would never have told Jean-Luc de Sauvignet about her injury if she'd known his doctorate was not in medicine. Now she feared everything she'd worked ...
From Algonquin, the original publisher...In this engaging novel, Terry Pringle chronicles the ups and downs, the joys and ordeals of two people who discover that, in Lori's words, "weddings don't involve any real commitment because most of the time t...
In this love story set in North Carolina and Tennessee, Wesley Beaver plans to abandon his thirty-year marriage to Rosacohe Mustian, but his decision forces them to confront questions of faith, commitment, and will, love and good heartedness...
Raine Bennett quickened her steps. Someone was following her, cloaked by the fog of a London night -- and she was terrified! Threatened by one stranger, she ran straight into the arms of another -- but strangely felt no threat from him. Michael Carr ...
Hedric, the greatest builder of medieval times, recounts his complex and unusual life under the secret junta ruling England, and describes his heresy and his ill-fated love for his father and for master mason Henry de Reyns...
DOUBLE IDENTITY Getting herself a job as a rodeo clown was the only way Hope Crenshaw could raise enough money to save her ranch. But not one rodeo owner in Montana would risk hiring a young widowed mother--it was just too dangerous. Still, life o...
Experts in space-age military technology, mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg and Lysander, Prince of Sparta, must work together to ensure that Sparta's colony world survives the dissolution of the alliance between America and Russia. Reiss...
Alternate chapters narrate two intertwining stories--one of a nineteenth-century teenage girl in the goldfields of Australia; the other of a present-day teenager who, in a nugget of gold, discovers a link with the past and the explanation to a myster...
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. He was a good friend, sensitive and caring. He respected his elders and obeyed his teachers. He loved basketball, old movies, and writing poetry. And he worshiped the photograph of his long-dead mother. The o...
With a new afterword by Jeff Gomez Originally published during the literary “Brat Pack” phenomenon of the 1980s, this new edition of Lisa Pliscou’s acclaimed first novel -- written when she was 24 -- roars through ten riotous days in the hilari...
When painter Finn O'Casey discovered Liberty Shaw dusting the shelves of his favorite old bookstore, he impulsively sneaked a kiss in the stacks! With her laugh like wind chimes and the biggest brown eyes he'd ever seen, Liberty Shaw was a potent fan...
FORBIDDEN COVENANT A sudden collision, a towering black stallion, an elegant German aristocrat--all of these exploded onto Caroline Hartmann senses as she travelled a treacherous mountain road. Merrick Von Hayden had come to Caroline's home in Penns...
A mother circus elephant tries to get her baby to eat like the circus people do, but things do not go as well as she hoped....
From orphan to mistress to courtesan, this is the story of Lily, a fabled young woman whose unusual skills in the art of love bring her fame and fortune in the flourishing brothels of the Yoshiwara, Tokyo's famous district of pleasure. As beautiful a...
SOULS FOR SLAUGHTER Suspicions about the existence of a nationwide Satanic "mafia," which deals in drugs, pornography and contract killings, are growing. The atrocities committed by psychopaths and serial killers are being linked to these devil wo...
Love gone wrong... Jessica Wakefield doesn't know how she'll survive a long weekend without her steady boyfriend. A. J. Morgan. But when she meets Christopher, a mysterious, good-looking boy, her lonely weekend turns into one of the most romantic tim...
When a handsome stranger forced his way into Millie Gordon's car and claimed shed crashed his stakeout, she believed there was danger-but not from the crooks! It wasn't panic but passion that filled her when Detective Dan Murdock pulled her into h...
This World War II thriller by anonymous authors, concentrates on two stories, one in Wannsee, near Berlin where documents are held that would destroy the careers of key figures in the British Governement and the other in America where FBI chief J.Edg...
HE NEVER PLAYED FAIR Born into a proud and wealthy Southern family, Ty knew how to win in games of both love and power. And when he lost, someone else always had to pay. SHE NEVER LOOKED BACK From a tragic childhood, golden-haired Talia rose to ...
This collection of ghost stories features works by Dean Koontz, Ramsey Campbell, Charles Grant, William Nolan, Charles de Lint, Thomas Tessier, Katherine Ptacek, and many other masters of horror genre...
In the dimness of the early morning I could see field after neighborhood field as I let my gaze wander around me. First there was ours I supposed I would always think of the farm as ours Grandpa's, Uncle Charlie's and mine, though in truth it really ...
Romance novel junkie Cheryl Freedman feels like she is playing the part of a romance heroine when the man of her dreams enters her life, but she soon discovers that real love does not follow the script....
As the saga of the Kelly children continues, Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him, they are mainly interested in having cheap labor....
They fought beneath the scorching sun -- and loved in the glow of the summer moon! MONEY WAS SUPERIOR TO MARRIAGE After a poor, ragged girlhood with he gypsy kinfolk, Krissoula Ballardo knew that all she wanted from life was her share of riches...
A deal's a deal, even if it hurts When English nurse Emily Grenfell struck a bargain with surgeon Sebastian van Tecqx, she never dreamed of what lay ahead. Sebastian promised to operate on her ailing father--if Emily traveled to Holland to care fo...
Suddenly everything seemed to go wrong When she lost her fiance to another woman, Helena gave up her job where they both worked. So she was glad to be offered a temporary position. However, delivering two children to their grandfather in Greece...
Fifteenth-century painter Jan Van Eyck becomes a pawn in the hands of nefarious plotters in the court of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, but nonetheless manages to create a great masterwork, the Ghent altarpiece...
In her ravishing and moving second novel, the bestselling author of In the Cut tells the story of Mamie Clarke, who sets out to lose herself in New York City.Having only previously known the fragile, magical world of her childhood on the lush Hawaiia...
Three years after the tragic death of her first boyfriend, Sam Jeannie Tanger decides to take another chance at love, and falls for Trent Justin, who reminds her of Sam, has a shady reputation, and is dating her best friend...
Eager to boast about his litter of seven baby rabbits, Rahm ventures out to his burrow and soon discovers that the field hare also has new babies and that in different ways both litters are equally special...
Where Amelia finds herself in danger of losing her beloved Cary to a younger woman...When Sawyer finds success running Coleman Aviation in Tokyo while her heart remains behind in Texas...When Riley; torn between Eastern traditions and Western love, w...
Her high school reunion thrust Sadie McClure back in time, but the rock-solid foundations of her youth now seemed made of shifting sands. Her beloved fiance was long since buried, her closest girlfriend had a growing brood, and their fourth buddy, Re...
Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume t...
Judith McNaught has written her most tender, most tempestuous romance yet... the story of Jennifer Merrick a feisty Scottish beauty, and the fierce English warrior she defies -- and desires. Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Jennifer does ...
Illus. in full color. While searching for a sewing needle to make her doll a new dress, "Nettie Jo helps Miz Rabbit unflop her ears, Fox get the sun out of his eyes, and Panther stop his sneezing. The trio turns up on her doorstep, with a needle as a...
Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, d...
D-DAY IS THREATENED. BUT ONE MAN COULD RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE NAZIS -- WITH HIS BARE CLAWS… He is Michael Gallatin, a master spy, lover -- and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury,...
TO AUSTRALIA THEY CAME Convicts, banished from England, were sent to serve out their sentences in the primitive and unforgiving headlands on Botany Bay. It was here in Sydney Town that they and their offspring braved famine and treachery to build ...
When Cleveland private investigator Gil Disbro agrees to help the adoptive parents of a young woman who is dying track down her biological mother, he comes face to face with murder, betrayal, long-buried scandal, and personal danger...
Dawn can't wait for this trip to California. Besides all the sun and fun, it's Dawn's first visit since her brother, Jeff, moved back to live with their dad. California is better than Dawn ever remembered it. The beaches are beautiful, Disneyland ...
No fair! Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing. There's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box. And Boo-Boo the cat runs away from her! Karen tries everything to make her day better. But her bad luck just won't go away. Sh...
This story, winner of the Betty Trask Prize, sheds new light on the mutual passion of the British and Italians and on the often misguided attempts to understand each other as the hero's diary spins tales of adventures - drunken, sporting and amorous ...
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days...