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New Books List: 527 titles

  • Rojak's Rule

    Steven M. Krauzer

    Branded a dirty cop when his partner is killed during a fierce shootout, police officer Victor Rojak turns in his badge and withdraws from the world, until his wife is abducted by a crime boss who has a personal vendetta against Rojak....

  • Strike of the China Falcon

    Stephen Cassell

    Nearly shot down in an airplane over Mexico by Chinese bullets, ex-Vietnam War veteran Nick Thurston is determined to get to the bottom of a dangerous international terrorist plot called Operation Dragonfly. Original....

  • The Outsider

    Barbara Delinsky

    Cameron Divine -- The roguish research scientist came from light-years away on a mission. A flesh-and-blood woman changed everything. Summer VanVorn -- A simple folk healer. Sexy, vulnerable, she'd been waiting all her life the right man to co...

  • Pyramid of Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT She was a stranger to his futuristic world, an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city who must not be allowed to return to her home. Yet though Aster would never be accepted by his people, Romulus found himself irresistibly draw...

  • Akira #4

    Katsuhiro Otomo

  • Cybernetic Jungle

    S.N. Lewitt

    His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data. O...

  • Darktraders

    Eluki Bes Shahar

    Butterfly St. Cyr, an honest darktrading smuggler, must bring Tiggy, the young hellflower heir to the chief diplomat of the AlMayne mercenaries, back to the Starbringer family's home world fortress. Original....

  • Earth's Vanishing Forests

    Roy A. Gallant

  • Free Radicals

    Jack McKinney

  • The Glory That Was

    L. Sprague de Camp

    When the World Emperor of the 27th century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin''s wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman. The two soon find themselves in Classical Greece.

    ...

  • The Memory of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves...

  • Partnership

    Anne McCaffrey; Margaret Ball

    Victim of a catastrophic prenatal accident that left her nothing but her brain functioning, Helva thought her life would amount to nothing. But Helva wanted to be more than a body in a box, drifting through life like a ghost in a machine. if she coul...

  • Second Death

    Michael Zuroy

  • Time Trap

    Sean Dalton

    When a time-traveler is mistakenly sent to Medieval Greece, he finds bandits, Crusaders -- and his own evil twin -- in this sci-fi series debut. In the 26th century, chaos threatens to overwhelm civilization -- but the historians on staff at the Time...

  • Afterward

    Catherine M. Rae

    Left to care for her siblings, along with older sister Angela, when the rest of their family is killed in a 1904 excursion boat fire, Maud Evans questions Angela's decision to marry a wealthy older man...

  • Bury Him Kindly

    Pat Burden

    When a car is found abandoned near the well-protected property of local recluse Alice Meddlar and her simpleton son, Robby, the local residents smell foul play, and Chief Superintendent Henry Bassett steps in to investigate....

  • Casting for Murder

    Mikel Dunham

  • Company Man

    Brent Wade

  • Deadly Allies

    Robert J. Randisi

    An anthology of mystery works by the two most influential mystery writers' organizations includes stories by Sue Grafton, Loren Estleman, Susan Dunlap, Sara Paretsky, Ben Schutz, Max Allan Collins, Jeremiah Healy, and others. 15,000 first printing....

  • Death As a Career Move

    Bruce Cook

    Hired by Majestic Studios to keep their name out the news after a corpse is found in their recording department, Los Angeles private eye Chico Cervantes investigates himself and discovers that the murdered man had had many secrets to hide....

  • The Disappearance of Edwin Drood

    Peter Rowland

    Hired by Cloisterham choirmaster Jasper John to ascertain the fate of his nephew, Edwin Drood, Sherlock Holmes and his trusty Dr. Watson set out to solve the mystery that Dickens began in his unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood....

  • The Fifth Level

    Edward Mathis

  • Gate of the Tigers

    Henry Meigs

    When an American employee of a Tokyo computer firm is murdered, Lieutenant Mori of the Japanese police and Ludlow, a cynical CIA free-lancer, reluctantly team up to solve the crime. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo....

  • The Gombeen Man

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Reunited with old friends and lovers at the funeral of friend and IRA hero Connor Larkin, American reporter Con Edwards quickly becomes involved in the intrigue surrounding Irish politics and terrorism...

  • Is Anybody There?

    T.G. Gilpin

    Retired police officer Tom Wiggins poses as a man eager to communicate with his loved one and attends Mrs. Hathaway's Thursday night seance in order to investigate the mysterious death of Mrs. Veronica Eckersley....

  • The Jersey Monkey

    Kate Gallison

    In the heart of corporate New Jersey, private investigator Nick Magaracz encounters militant animal rights activists, hostile takeovers, office sex scandals, wealthy art patrons, and other corrupt individuals...

  • The Medium Is Murder

    Molly McKitterick

    KYYY TV's consumer affairs reporter Lauren Michaels is murdered before she can blow the lid off the philandering of St. Louis's most powerful men, and soon Lauren's colleague, William Hecklepeck, is investigating her murder...

  • Murder Uptown

    Donna Hill

    Well aware that a killer is stalking her, Melvina continues her investigation into the grisly circumstances surrounding the death of Professor Paul Baskin, and she begins to suspect that someone at the university is to blame....

  • Night Squad

    David Goodis

    When a cop goes bad, he can always become a crook.  When a crook goes bad--that's when the Night Squad wants him.

    David Goodis's irresistibly readable study of corruption is a masterly portrait of a man clawing his way back from betrayal--an...

  • Play Dead

    Peter Dickinson

    A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author’s “gripping thriller” (Reginald Hill). Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone...

  • Rules of Evidence

    Jay Brandon

    Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating ...

  • Shoofly Pie to Die

    Joshua Quittner

    Antique collectors Sam Popkin and Sara Amstel are ill-prepared for the ""treasure"" they discover in the Pennsylvania Dutch chest they have purchased--a dead body--and soon they are involved in an adventure-filled mystery....

  • Silent Witness

    Charles Wilson

    A rape and murder scene very seldom reveals all that happened during the commission of the heinous crime, and some thins are never learned -- and best not known. Following a stormy night that must have muffled her screams, a teenager is found dea...

  • House Guest

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Dangerous relations . . . Abducted, accosted and then accused of murder--what a welcome for Londoner Anne Clarence on her first trip to the United States. In Denver to meet her grandfather for the first time, Anne discovered that the wealthy patri...

  • House of Four Seasons

    Abigail McDaniels

    Subject of myth and legend, the wisteria-shrouded mansion stood derelict, crumbling into the Louisiana bayou until architect Lauren Hamilton rescued it from the encroaching swamps. She swore the Padgett House would open a new chapter in her unhappy l...

  • Never Say Die

    Tess Gerritsen

    Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...

  • Sweeter Than Sin

    Sara Orwig

    DADDY'S GIRL: Dazzlingly beautiful, Cheramie was the daughter of San Francisco's richest business tycoon, the wife of a charismatic senator -- and a woman with a secret lover she would do anything to keep. -- SUPERSTAR: A retired baseball great, Je...

  • The Barefoot Baroness

    Joan Smith

    AFTER ONE DISASTROUS SEASON, LAURA HARWOOD HAD NO DESIGNS FOR SNAGGING A HUSBAND... She hardly felt qualified to accompany her cousin Olivia, Baroness Pilmore, to London for her debut. However, Olivia's fears of social failure proved unfounded...

  • Deborah Goes to Dover

    Marion Chesney

    The engaging Miss Hannah Pym delights all as she resumes her matchmaking adventures aboard the English stage... When lonely hearts chance across her intrepid path they're sure to find themselves en route for romance! Destined for Dover, Mis...

  • The Easter Charade

    Mona Gedney

    A FASHIONABLE HOLIDAY Andrew Norville regarded the high-handed Miss Harrington with astonished outrage. Not only had she convinced her impressionable young cousin to avoid his marriage proposal, she had swept the girl off to revel in the frivolous r...

  • Gabriella

    Brenda Hiatt

    She turned his consequence into his conscience Gabriella Gordon knew that she would have to agree to a London Season sooner or later or her Society sister would plague her to death. After only a few days in Town, the celebrated Duke of Ravenham...

  • An Improper Duenna

    Paula Marshall

    THREE GRACES AND THE APPLE OF DISCORD Miss Chloe Transome, the impoverished dependent of her cousin Serena, Lady Marchingham, was forced to take employment in her household. Little did she guess that she, her cousin and her charge, Marianne, would...

  • The Improper Playwright

    Margaret Summerville

    No Role For A Lady Beautiful young Lady Verity de Lacy had a shocking secret talent and an even more scandalous hidden ambition. She wrote rivetingly romantic plays, and longed to see them performed in public. Should the truth come out, her pa...

  • Lady Arden's Redemption

    Marjorie Farrell

    The Unbending Beauty Lady Arden Huntly was beautiful, highborn, and wealthy. Her entry into the marriage mart should have been a stunning success. Instead it was a disaster. For Arden was as arrogant as she was exquisite. No lord was good enough f...

  • Lady Sarah's Charade

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    A CONTRIVED COURTSHIP Lovely Sarah Clement-Brooke wants no part of romance. She prefers, instead, to pursue the ghosts that reputedly haunt her "grace and favour" apartment at Hampton Court--a predilection that makes for diverting evenings, but do...

  • A Love to Treasure

    Melinda Pryce

    Raised on the sea stories of her salty Uncle Peg, Rosamunde Wickes yearns for adventure but finds humdrum romance with a vicar, until the arrogant and handsome Lord Merritt arrives with the tale of a family fortune lost at sea. Original....

  • Madam Mystery

    Rebecca Ward

    HOW LONG COULD SHE KEEP HER IDENTITY -- AND HER FEELINGS -- IN DISGUISE? With an eccentric family to support, Damaris Cardell -- alias Desmond Winter -- was a mystery writer of great popularity. Of course no one realized that "he" was ...

  • A Maddening Minx

    Mary Kingsley

    A WOMAN OF MISCHIEF Finding herself quite literally in Philip Thornton's arms after a curricle accident, Sarah was more than a little intrigued by her rescuer, especially by his mysterious eyepatch. Fortunately her injuries were minor, and her...

  • Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career

    Carla Kelly

    School For Scandal Beautiful and brilliant Miss Ellen Grimsley considered it a scandal and a shame that she as a female could not attend Oxford, while a dashing dunderhead like her older brother Gordon could. On the other hand, society would reel ...

  • Noble Deception

    Eileen Winwood

    A brief encounter...and a lasting love Lady Juliana Westlake lived a staid and secluded life...or so it seemed. For the green-eyed beauty had a secret life as a spy - and it was while she was disguised as a French barmaid that she carried out the ...

  • The Suitable Suitor

    Alicia Farraday

    She was like a breath of fresh air Only just turned eighteen, Melody Maitland had had little choice but to become a runaway in order to avoid a loveless marriage. When discovered by Lord Dake, who in no uncertain terms advised her he meant to ...

  • An Uncommon Intrigue

    Georgina Devon

    A BEWITCHING MISS Of noble birth on her father's side, Miss Mary Elizabeth Sinclair was decidedly startled to have the British Home Office employ her as a spy. While she did not mind rejoining her mother's gypsy family, nor posing as "Ta...

  • My Phantom Love

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    The phantom of Fillmore High… When Aimee Harrison transfers to a city high school for the performing arts, she expects a world of drama, music, and sophisticated new friends to greet her. Instead, the students at Fillmore High don't want an intrud...

  • Stowaway for Love

    Glenna Finley

    STORM AT SEA Paige Collins was ready for the exciting unknown as a passenger on a cargo ship across the Atlantic. But she found herself asea in a way she did not expect when she met her lone fellow passenger, John Winthrop. Beautiful Paige wa...

  • 19th Precinct

    Christopher Newman

    "Tough, gritty suspenseful...Newman is one of the best in the business."
    William J. Caunitz
    Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE
    A ruthless IRA terrorist is loose on the streets of New York City. A C.E.O. and his mistress are killed execution-sty...

  • A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

    Ann Cleeves

    Vicars' wives do not usually get themselves murdered... ... especially when they are as vibrant and caring as beautiful Dorothea Cassidy. But murdered she unquestionably was; and from the outset Inspector Stephen Ramsay is hard put to figure out why...

  • Dead Time

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Eleanor Taylor Bland's legions of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-- and one of the best-- mystery series written by an African American writer about an African American ...

  • Death and Taxes

    Susan Dunlap

    SCHEDULE M, FOR MURDER Until someone put a poisoned needle in his bicycle seat, Phil Drem was the meanest, most nit-picking IRS agent in Berkeley, California. But when Detective Jill Smith began searching Berkeley's backwaters for the tax man's...

  • The Death of Love

    Bartholomew Gill

    A first-time father at fifty-one, Irish police chief Peter McGarr takes his infant daughter and feisty wife to a country resort, where he is commissioned to investigate the murder of a high-powered banker....

  • A Great Day for the Deadly

    Jane Haddam

    Fifteen hundred years after St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland an Armenian detective is dueling sin in a small upstate New York town. On the eve of St. Patrick's Day festivities, a young nun in training has been murdered. A man of irresolute f...

  • Silent Prey

    John Sandford

    Once, Bekker indulged his brilliant obsession with death; now he is in prison. Once, he was hunted by a man who understood the genius of murder; now he wants revenge. . . . Lieutenant Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. . . ....

  • Spirit of Love

    Emma Goldrick

    Was there more to her future than the past? Though her husband had died four years ago, Emily still had his ghost to talk to and a nursing career that kept her busy. Perhaps too busy. There seemed to be no cure for her overwhelming work load, the ...

  • The Forest Prime Evil

    Alan Russell

    JUST DYING TO SAVE THE TREES... Part hero, part activist, the Green Man is a modem-day Johnny Appleseed whose grass roots campaign to preserve the redwoods gets the ax when he is felled by a plummeting branch. But echoes of foul play reverberate t...

  • Murder on Wheels

    Valerie Frankel

    Approached by Strom Bismark, the leader of the notorious biker gang, Blood and Iron, Wanda agrees to help him find the criminal who ripped off a bundle of dough from Strom's illegal East Village social club. Original....

  • Seeing the Elephant

    Les Roberts

    #5 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon returns to his hometown, Chicago, where one of his oldest pals, cop Gavin Cassidy, has died of a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol in a cheap hotel. Saxon arrives for the funeral to find his old crowdȁ...

  • The Trail to Buddha's Mirror

    Don Winslow

    What begins as a routine missing person's case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger and international intrigue in this superb mystery. On sabbatical from duties as an operative for a group known as Friends of the Family, Neal Carey, is visited in ...

  • Cat's Claw

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Someone leaves murdered corpses on the doorsteps of the wealthy. Jared Eden is arrested for the crimes, and attorney/part-time detective Charlie Moon is hired to defend him. To discover if Eden is innocent or not, Moon turns to his ancient Indian her...

  • City of God

    Michael Jahn

    When a serial killer sets up house in New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and is bent on punishing the city's sinners, New York City Detective Bill Donovan must tackle his toughest case yet....

  • Poisoned Ivy

    M.D. Lake

    When university student Donna Trask is murdered with a poisoned apple meant for Jeremiah Strauss, the university's most unpopular dean, security officer Peggy O'Neill must find the assassin before he or she strikes again. Original....

  • You Have the Right to Remain Silent

    Barbara Paul

    NOBODY'S TALKING Down the mean streets of Manhattan's Alphabet City, Marian Larch discovers that even a cop's tough emotional hide can be riddled by the area's violent, twisted crime. Another murder is added to her caseload, and it's a beauty: fou...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Timothy Miller

    Two plastic surgeons of opposing temperaments--the devoted Lionel Stern and the unscrupulous Morris Gold--wind up on opposite sides of the table when Stern is asked to investigate the death of one of Gold's patients....

  • All the Dead Heroes

    Stephen F. Wilcox

    Assigned to investigate the career of one of the first Black major league players, Frank Wooley, free-lance reporter T.S.W. Sheridan finds that the rumors of wife beating and gambling are hiding an even ghastlier secret...

  • First To Die

    Peter Nelson

    Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.   For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her belove...

  • Point No-Point

    David Willis McCullough

    Ziza Todd, the feisty reverend and amateur sleuth, returns to the Hudson River Valley to take up her new church assignment in Quarryville, an incestuous town full of quirky characters and deep dark secrets. Soon after her arrival, the town has two mu...

  • Back in the Blue House

    Jeff Giles

  • Christopher and Alexandra

    Maggie Gee

  • Arabesque

    Kit Gardner

    A Match Made In . . . If she agreed to suffer one insipid season in radon society, Trista Fitzgerald would be free to urn to her beloved countryside--that was the deal e had made with her father. Then the infamous "Boudoir Murderer" frightened her...

  • The Bandit's Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Kidnapped! Snatched from her sleep by Pancho Villa's notorious outlaws, Meg Atherton's only thought was to get out of Mexico and back to her daddy's ranch. And sly Meg was sure she would have escaped, if not for Villa's American bandido, Timothy C...

  • Blazing Texas Nights

    Victoria Thompson

    A FIERY HEIRESS Strong-willed Leah Harding had her hands full protecting her family's vast ranch from scheming landgrabbers. So when ruggedly handsome gunslinger Calhoun Stevens suddenly showed up with an unproven claim on her family, she swore to t...

  • Caroline and the Raider

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to sec the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Co...

  • Cherished

    Jill Gregory

    A wild land... A rough-riding bounty hunter... A spirited belle turned outlaw... A love that could only come with trust... Riding hell-bent through Colorado, Juliana Montgomery felt only outrage. Events had transformed her from a beautiful St. Lo...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Shannon Drake

    A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS An enemy of ruthless and powerful noblemen who would usurp the English crown, beautiful headstrong heiress Katherine de Montrain is forced to marry for her own protection-vowing to wed but never to submit to her handsome virile ...

  • Dance of Deception

    Suzannah Davis

    Amid the unrest of the Napoleonic wars, Genevieve Maples struggles to keep her grandfather's theatrical troupe afloat, unaware that Bryce Darcy Cormick, an actor in the troupe, is actually a spy. During an uneasy pause in the Napoleonic wars, lov...

  • Deeper Than Roses

    Charlene Cross

    Emerald eyes wide with terror, auburn hair streaming, exquisite Kristiana Harcourt fled into the night. Her noble father lay dead. With his murderer, Edward MacHugh, in hot pursuit, she galloped wildly to freedom only to fall into the arms of a golde...

  • Defiant Rose

    Colleen Quinn

    IN A WORLD WHERE DREAMS COME TO LIFE, HER HEART FOUND A DARING PASSION... Rose Carney ... Across the new frontier, she ran Carney's Circus with an unsinkable spirit that was part of her show-business heritage. The world of fun-loving peformers was...

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Patricia Grasso

    A WOMAN'S PRIDE Vulnerable young widow of a hot-tempered Irish chieftain, Kathryn Devereux sought her children's safety in marriage to her late husband's ambitious nephew, Hugh O'Neill -- who won an earldom with their union. Now Countess Tyrone, Kat...

  • The Falcon and the Swan

    Diane Gates Robinson

    YANKEE'S BOLD KISS High-spirited Ariane Valcour's mettle was tested when she brought her wounded father back from the Shiloh Battlefield, but that was only the first of the Confederate belle's daring escapades. When Memphis fell to the Union Army A...

  • Fire on the Wind

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English...

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Michele Stegman

    Raven Winthrop had thought her troubles were over when a swashbuckling seaman rescues her from a band of vicious pirates, but her hero is really a Winthrop family nemesis whose revenge is sweet indeed. When swashbuckling Jeffrey Fortune rescued he...

  • Heaven in a Wildflower // Forbidden to Love

    Patricia Hagan

    It was in the sultry heat of a Louisiana summer that they came together for the first time -- the plantation owner's headstrong daughter, Anjele Sinclair, and the bronze-skinned, muscular Cajun worker known only as Gator. In the secret darkness o...

  • A House Divided

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    As the war in the Balkans nears its end, Prince Sergei Fedorcenko returns to St. Petersburg and to his love, Anna Burenin, whose brother, Paul, has joined the revolutionaries. Torn between love for her family and devotion to the Fedorcenkos, Anna's f...

  • Kansas Kiss

    Christine Dorsey

    DEFIANT PASSION Young Samantha Lowery cautiously examined the handsome Confederate officer she'd wounded. A band of ex-Rebel marauders had sworn to drive her from her land, and she was certain this man was one of them. Although she was mesmeri...

  • Long Virginia Nights

    Lindsey Hanks

    Ginny was struggling to hold onto her family's tobacco farm, until her next door neighbor called in his deed on the land. Now her long hot days in the sun were over, but her long cool nights began, as she made the social rounds to keep an eye on that...

  • Louisiana Heat

    Jennifer Stevens

    A spectacular novel of a grand plantation in the days before the Civil War! MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia R...

  • Love Me 'Til Dawn

    Phoebe Conn

    He was a fugitive masquerading as a lawman. She was an innocent sentenced to die for a crime committed in self-defense. And once destiny brought them together, nothing could tear them apart. Not the shadows of their pasts, not the uncertainty of thei...

  • Midnight Lovestorm

    Linda Windsor

    He haunted her dreams. Then awakened her desires. She dreamed his caress: Dr. Catalina McCulloch was proud of her newly-earned medical degree and eager to begin her new job in Los Reyes, California. On her trip from East Texas, a masked bandit robbed...

  • Moondancer

    Judith E. French

    WORLDS APART Fleeing a life of dire poverty, lovely, strong-willed Fiona O'Neal comes to America as an indentured servant -- only to be traded to a pair of rough and lustful backwoodsmen. But what the flamed-haired Irish miss fears most of all is th...

  • Moonlight Rebel

    Marie Ferrarella

    She needed a safe haven Coming to the colonies and living on a Virginia plantation in the midst of a brewing revolution was not the life Krystyna would have chosen. But she had been offered no choice when she fled her native Poland, just ahead of ...

  • People of the Mesa

    Ardath Mayhar

    The Anasazi, a pre-Columbian tribe dwelling in what is now Colorado, face the greatest threat to their existence when a hostile tribe threatens, and the youthful Uhtatse assumes leadership of his people. Original....

  • The Pleasures of Love // The Merry Monarch's Wife

    Jean Plaidy

    SHE WAS READY TO ENDURE ALL -- FOR THE PLEASURES OF LOVE Newly married to King Charles II, Catherine of Braganza has left her sheltered upbringing in Portugal to become part of the notoriously licentious English court. She soon falls deeply in lov...

  • Promise Me Forever

    Cara Miles

    A ROGUE'S ARMS Lily Montague had no plans to wed any of the suitors gathered at her coming-out ball -- especially not Captain Matthew Hawke. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, the audacious American privateer dared her to resist his br...

  • Run Wild My Heart

    Maureen Child

    A BOLD DECISION For beautiful Margaret Allen, traveling alone across the western plains was her only escape from a loveless marriage -- a marriage secretly arranged by her father as part of a heartless business scheme. In a fury, she left her quiet,...

  • Savage Surrender

    Colleen Faulkner

    FEARLESS CAPTIVE Determination and a will to live were all that kept Lady Rachael Moreover from giving up in the first days after her capture by the Iroquois. She'd never surrender to those savages, no matter what they threatened! But the broad shou...

  • Sea Change

    Alison McLeay

    Katherine Summerbee, has been brought up on a boat by her gruff father with no luxuries and little love. She meets handsome, courageous Matthew Oliver, an Englishman who is smuggling Confederate gold out of Civil War-torn New Orleans on the eve of th...

  • Steal the Stars

    Miranda Jarrett

    On the eve of revolution. WHAT PRICE LOVE? Blessed with the devil's own luck, Captain Gardner Griffin had outrun King George's fastest schooners as he smuggled guns to the American colonists preparing for revolt. Yet with a disreputable past an...

  • Summer's Knight

    Virginia Lynn

    An innocent heiress, a notorious rake...and a passion that demanded total surrender ONE RESTLESS HEART A New Orleans heiress, Summer St. Clair never dreamed that fleeing from an arranged marriage would leave her stranded, penniless and alone, in ...

  • Sweet Silver Passion

    Pamela K. Forrest

    HE SAW DISASTER ABOUT TO STRIKE Just looking at the woman called Apache Sam filled Cooper with longing. She was a breathtaking sight with her long silver blonde hair and curves in all the right places. But to hire this woman to guide his wagon train...

  • They Called Her Mrs. Doc

    Janette Oke

    There had never been a reason to think of any other life . . . until he walked into hers. The only daughter of a noted Montreal physician and educator, Cassandra Dell Winston enjoys all the opportunities of Eastern society and affluence. She...

  • Touched by Magic

    Patricia Rice

    Nothing could break passion's spell SEDUCED AND CONQUERED Lady Cassandra Howard was nearly ruined. He rakehell brother forced her to frequent the London demimonde, then tried to sell her into a marriage with a dissolute lord. Though the world belie...

  • Viking Passion

    Flora Speer

    VIKING CAPTIVE Her spirit unbroken despite the terrifying raid that destroyed her home, Lenora vowed she would hate all Norsemen. But her vow proved difficult to fulfill when she was given to Erik the Far-Traveler. Unlike his brother, who had captur...

  • A Warrior's Heart

    Margaret Moore

    Safe Haven From the moment Emryss Delanyea stole her away to his dark and misty valley filled with ancient magic, Lady Roanna Westercott felt safe for the first time in years. Though he bore the scars of battle, the Welshman seemed invincible. Lit...

  • Where Eagles Soar

    Peggy Hanchar

    SHE WAS AS PROUD AND FREE AS THE EAGLE SOARING IN THE OPEN SKIES OF THE GREAT FRONTIER. Daughter of an American fur trader and a beautiful Crow Indian woman, Raven was bold and headstrong -- the equal of any warrior brave. She did not share the ...

  • Bad Brains

    Kathe Koja

    Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain. Original....

  • Borderland

    S.K. Epperson

    Not much had changed in remote Denke, Kansas, since the pioneer days: descendants of the same families still walked the streets; the same customs still held the residents together; the same fears still forced the people to hide their dark secrets fro...

  • Del-Del

    Victor Kelleher

    A teenage girl in Sydney, Australia, records how her family is devasted by her older sister's death and by the bizarre behavior of her gifted younger brother, who seems to be possessed by a coldly unfeeling entity....

  • The Fagin

    Pat Graversen

    Returning to her hometown of Blue Hill with her young son, Jason, Felice Sinclair realizes the town has changed over the years when Jason becomes the unwilling student of the high priest of terror who stalks the night. AN INNOCENT VICTIM It wa...

  • A Foot in the Grave: and Other Ghost Stories

    Joan Aiken

    A collection of eerie tales illustrated with black-and-white images conjures up truly believable ghosts and lets them loose in modern settings with frightening results. Stories include: • Cold Harbour • Movable Eyes • Beezelbub's Baby...

  • Night Music

    Shelia B. Garner

    Kitty Barrett had thought she had found Mr. Right, but a series of savage cult murders soon lead her to believe that while she had been worshipping him, he had been secretly engaging in his own bloody worship practices. Original....

  • Night Sounds

    Warner Lee

    “CHOOSE,” THE VOICES SAID. “CHOOSE NOW.” AND DAVE GUTHRIE CHOSE.” From the flaming wreckage of the jetliner that crashed over one hundred souls, only Dave Guthrie was alive. Everybody hailed Dave’s miraculous good luck. It was more ...

  • The Prom Queen

    R.L. Stine

    DANCE OF DEATH.... A spring night...soft moonlight...five beautiful Prom Queen candidates...dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom -- these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder -- then another, and another -- a...

  • Scared to Death

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Muffie, Elliot and Quentin Bullock are three rude, crude kids. They swear. They play horrible pranks. They burp. No one will ever baby-sit for them-not if they want to make it out alive. Then Mr. and Mrs. Bullock accidentally hire the meanest hag of ...

  • Summer of Night

    Dan Simmons

    It's the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful, magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, tha...

  • The Torching

    Marcy Heidish

    Georgetown author Alice Grey, determined to discover the truth about an eighteenth-century Massachusetts midwife burned as a witch, finds herself haunted by dark dreams and a serious of gruesome murders. Reprint....

  • Unholy Fire

    Whitley Strieber

    Father John Rafferty, a dedicated priest tempted by the beautiful young woman he has been counseling, must face the greatest test of his faith when an evil force embodied in someone near the church begins a killing spree. Reprint....

  • Death of the Duchess

    Elizabeth Eyre

    With his bald head and black cape, the sleuth Sigismondo cuts an imposing figure as he courts death and danger in Renaissance Italy. At home among both royals and rogues, he is a master of the noble art of detection--and with his companion, the peasa...

  • The Greta Garbo Murder Case

    George Baxt

    Accepting the role of Joan of Arc, Hollywood star Greta Garbo finds herself in the middle of a picture involving German expatriates and a cast of spies. By the author of The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case....

  • The Vanished Child

    Sarah Smith

    "Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.Switzerla...

  • Prophet of Moonshae

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Ffolk have forsaken their goddess, the Earthmother, and have turned to the new gods to protect them. Now, capricious and malevolent, one of the new lords has turned the worship of the Ffolk against them. It falls to the royal daughters of High Ki...

  • The 600 Mile Stretch

    Jim Miller

    For ex-Texas Rangers Wash and Chance Carston, Charlie Goodnights’ first cattle drive spelled danger and making it through alive turns out to only be half of the fight in this Western novel based on the real Charlie Goodnight and his legendary f...

  • Blood Bounty

    Jon Sharpe

  • Cannons of the Comstock

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Child Star

    Lydia Weaver

    Ten-year-old Joey Norman helps his family survive the Depression by landing a silent movie role in Hollywood, but he worries about what will happen to his career when sound becomes a part of the motion pictures....

  • Desert Death

    Jon Sharpe

    HELL BY ANY OTHER NAME Jornada del Muerto meant Journey of the Dead. But Skye Fargo had another name for this New Mexico desert that no one in his right mind tried to cross. That name was Hell, and the Trailsman headed into its searing center to r...

  • The Dog Who Would Not Smile

    Stephen A. Bly

    Nathan T. Riggins panicked as he hurried from one empty building to the next. Where was everyone? How could everybody in a whole town just disappear?In the deserted Post Office, bags of unopened mail lay everywhere. With increasing dread, he looked t...

  • Five Against Death

    J.R. Roberts

    The town of Los Alamos is about to be swallowed whole by the notorious bandit El Gigante. Only four dare to fight back -- but they know it will be a losing battle unless Clint Adams agrees to step in. The Gunsmith isn't about to sell his hide for a p...

  • Gunslinger's Scalp

    Kit Dalton

  • Journal of the Gun Years

    Richard Matheson

    Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compel...

  • Lone Star and the Horse Thieves

    Wesley Ellis

    The outlaws have left a cold trail for Jessie and Ki -- but things are starting to heat up in the one hundred and fifteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice...

  • Longarm in the Sierra Oriental

    Tabor Evans

  • Mountain Men on the Santa Fe Trail

    Jess McCreede

    BLOOD CANYON With the beaver trade played out up north, weren't much left for trappers like Zack McClendon and his pard Peck Overstreet 'cept trailblazing for greenhorns headed West. Guiding a wagon train of muleskinners and settlers to Santa Fe, ...

  • Nickajack

    Robert J. Conley

    In the East, his people has lived on the land for thousands of years. Now it was a nation bitterly divided, and Nickjack had decided to leave it behind. But when his country's broken heart came chasing after him in the West, he found himself with ene...

  • Range War

    Will McLennan

  • Rebel

    Arthur Moore

  • Rush to Destiny

    Larry Jay Martin

    In this rousing frontier epic, Larry Jay Martin breathes life into one of the most exciting periods in American history--and into one of its most extraordinary heroes: Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a man whose hunger for adventure led him to feats of valo...

  • Slocum and the River Chase

    Jake Logan

    When Confederate General McRae is kidnapped by businessmen interested in preventing the release of his upcoming memoirs, Slocum abandons whiskey and women to protect the general on a wild, lead-filled trip down the Mississippi. ...

  • Texas Manhunt

    Clay Dawson

  • Track Down

    Dan Mason

    Hired to track down a former slave accused of murdering a popular and prominent rancher, Lex Cranshaw finds himself playing bodyguard when an angry mob threatens to murder the suspect in cold blood. Original....

  • Walks in the Sun

    Don Coldsmith

    Twelve brave young men set out, led by the  indomitable Blue Jay, seeking a better wintering land to  the mysterious south. But the quest becomes an  obsession that plunges the men--and the beautiful,  enigmatic woman who joins them--into a l...

  • The Whip

    Luke Short

    With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heav...

  • World of Silence

    Don Coldsmith

    The only survivor, along with his granddaughter, of an attack by the Forest People, Hunts-Alone and the young girl journey forward toward a new destiny, carrying with them the seeds of their ancient heritage. Original....

  • The Secret of Montroth House

    Muriel Newsome

    Lorene Kilmer heads for the wilds of British Columbia and her two eccentric aunts when her father dies, and there she encounters an evil presence at their abode, Montroth House, a threat against her life, and an enigmatic, handsome stranger. Afte...

  • White Roses of Brambledene

    Joyce C. Ware

    "DRAW THE CURTAINS, MISS GRAYSON. SHE'S STILL HERE, YOU KNOW." Yearning for a few days' respite from her work as assistant to an austere New York physician, delicate Violet Grayson accepted the invitation to a weekend houseparty at Brambledene. ...

  • Abeng

    Michelle Cliff

    Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt...

  • Acts of Faith

    Erich Segal

    They met as children, innocents from two different worlds.  And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church.  But...

  • Ah!

    Josse Goffin

    A collection of thirty-six full-color illustrations presents twelve works of art from the Louvre, Muse+a7e d'Orsay, and the Picasso Museum in large-format fold-out form, providing a visually stimulating introduction to the world of art. All ages....

  • Amelia's Fantastic Flight

    Rose Bursik

    In love with airplanes, Amelia builds one of her own and takes off on an adventure-filled flight around the globe, where she observes a baby sloth in Brazil, the pyramids of Egypt, a panda in China, and much more....

  • Anastasia Morningstar

    Hazel Hutchins

  • Andrew Wants a Dog

    Steven Kroll

  • Animal Stew

    Shen Roddie

    Once in the caldron, the animals in Eva the Enormous Giant's stew eat one another, until finally only Bear is left. Too much pepper makes him sneeze, and everyone escapes, leaving Eva with only pepper soup. A lift-the-flap book with large, simple art...

  • The Animal that Drank Up Sound

    William Stafford

  • Any Kind of Dog

    Lynn Reiser

  • Ariel above the Sea: Walt Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • At the Zoo

    Douglas Florian

  • Baby Animals: Five Stories of Endangered Species

    Derek Hall

  • Bambi: Peek-A-Boo

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • Barbara Frietchie

    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Barnaby and the Big Gorilla

    Alain Leonard

  • Basic Instinct

    Richard Osborne

    Nick Curran, a San Francisco detective, investigates the murder of a rock star, and finds himself becoming obsessed with Catherine Tramell, a beautiful, bisexual novelist, and the prime suspect in a series of ice pick murders...

  • Batter Up!

    Neil Johnson

  • Battlecry Forever!

    Joanna Campbell

    Certain that Battlecry, the unmanageable thoroughbred at her parents' stable, would behave himself under her tutelage, fifteen-year-old Leslie D'Andrea is delighted when her parents give her a chance to prove Battlecry's worth....

  • Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin

    Ana Miranda

    Ecclesiastical poet Gregorio+a7 de Matos deplores the corruption and hypocrisy he witnesses when an investigation into the assassination of a controversial political figure divides the already fragile government of seventeenth-century Brazil. 25,000 ...

  • Bea's 4 Bears

    Martha Weston

  • Beastie

    Georgess McHargue

  • Beaver Boys

    Bonnie Pryor

  • The Best Bug to Be

    Dolores Johnson

  • Best Wishes Whoever You Are

    Deirdre Corey

  • Beware of Boys

    Tony Blundell

  • Big Sarah's Little Boots

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Bigfoot and Other Legendary Creatures

    Paul Robert Walker

    Stories about seven mysterious creatures from Big Foot to the Loch Ness monster keep readers guessing about their existence, and are each followed by a factual account of the current scientific research and speculation about the creatures....

  • Blood Confessions

    Al DiBartolomeo

    As a favor to his brother Frank, Vincent Vespers agrees to help the dying Don Carmine Tucci pen his memoirs and suddenly he becomes trapped in a deathly struggle for control of the don's empire. Reprint....

  • Blood Red, Snow White

    Diane Henry

  • Boss Dog

    M.F.K. Fisher

    Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir and part fiction, this adventure is presided over by an aloof and proprietary mongrel, the Boss Dog, who frequents the young family's favorite cafe....

  • Bright Shark

    Robert Ballard

    Assigned to locate Dakar, the Israeli naval vessel that vanished years ago without a trace, troubleshooter Wendell Trent travels three miles below the ocean's surface, while two governments risk an armed encounter to abort America's search. 45,000 fi...

  • Bunny Hop

    Teddy Slater

  • Busy O'Brien and the Caterpillar Punch Bunch

    Michelle Poploff

  • A Busy Year

    Leo Lionni

    A charming exploration of the seasons with some of Caldecott-winner Leo Lionni's beloved mice.In January, two mice, Willie and Winnie, make a new friend: a tree. The tree tells them her name is Woody, and the mice promise to visit her all year ro...

  • But Not Kate

    Marissa Moss

  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    Elizabeth Smart

    Originally published in 1945, this book of poetic prose encapsulates former journalist Elizabeth Smart’s relationship with poet George Barker. Instantly, upon picking up a book of his poetry while browsing through a London bookshop, Smart fell in l...

  • Caroline's Mystery Dolls

    Molly Mia Stewart

  • Chain of Command

    Kevin D. Randle

    With a heavily armed space armada from the galaxy's most hostile race bearing down on all opposing life forms, Brigadier General David Steven Jefferson attempts a desperate maneuver--capturing the aggressors's home world--that could end the war. Orig...

  • The Cherry Tree

    Daisaku Ikeda

  • The Chicken Book

    Garth Williams

  • City of Childhood

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    As two researchers reconstruct the life of nineteenth-century English novelist Emma Forster, they uncover the outrageous secrets that lurk behind the staid Victorian facade of her family, in a multi-layered story within a story...

  • Class Clown

    Michael Pellowski

    When class clown Reggie falls for serious student Bernadette Brownle, whose interests lie in the debating team and Future Deep Thinkers Club, Reggie knows that winning her affections will be an uphill battle. Original....

  • Cloak of Darkness

    Ann Brahms

    Attending a Halloween party dressed in the identical costume as her best friend, Kelly, Piper Jordan is horrified when Kelly is murdered and even more shocked when she realizes the killer had intended to murder Piper. Original....

  • A Closed Eye

    Anita Brookner

    In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying pros...

  • Clothes Horse and Other Stories

    Janet Ahlberg

  • The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: A Traditional Tale

    Anonymous

  • Coney Tale

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos