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New Books List: 569 titles

  • The Ivory and the Horn

    Charles de Lint

    In the city of Newford, when the stars and the vibes are right, you can touch magic. Mermaids sing in the murky harbor, desert spirits crowd the night, and dreams are more real than waking.

    Charles de Lint began his chronicles of the extraordi...

  • Harm's Way

    Stephen White

    When Dr. Alan Gregory's good friend Peter Arvin is found dying on the stage of a Colorado theater, suspicion soars that he is the second victim of a serial killer. Now the police want Alan to create a psychological profile of the murderer. Peter's wi...

  • Before the Storm

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday's Rebels have becom...

  • Lightsabers

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Rogue Saucer

    John Vornholt

    While its own saucer section receives needed repairs, the U.S.S. Enterprise tests a new experimental saucer. In theory, the new saucer can survive a planetary crash landing, but will it come through intact under genuine test conditions? Riker, Data, ...

  • Far Star

    Anne Avery

    THE DREAMER... Dayra Smith didn't know a flitter engine from a solar generator, but she was determined to turn a run-down piece of land into a working farmhold. And even though she had to slave day and night, the stubborn beauty refused to ask any...

  • Bellwether

    Connie Willis

    Sandra Foster studies fads--from Barbie dolls to the grunge look--how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theorist studying monkey group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package...

  • Beloved Son

    George Turner

    Forty years after his starship escapes from an apocalyptic Earth, Commander Albert Raft and his crew return to a much younger and violent Earth society that wants to embrace Raft as a god because of his telepathic powers....

  • Common Clay

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A collection of stories considers themes of life, death, and transformation and includes such titles as "Making my father read revered writings," "Headless," and "If Hamlet's uncle had been a nicer guy"...

  • Dead Boys

    Richard Calder

    A sequel to Dead Girls finds the human race beleaguered by a war between the Lilim, a sensual and destructive female species, and the Elohim, a male nanotech-created fanged-angel super-humanoid race....

  • Fisherman's Hope

    David Feintuch

    THE SEAFORT SAGA There is nowhere to hide from the deadly night. Even our human ark, our Earth, is only a fragile raft adrift in the infinite darkness. But with the strength of the blessed, and the courage of the damned, can one hero set humanity's ...

  • Heirs of Empire

    David Weber

    THE BOSS'S KIDS For really tough jobs, Emperor Colin the First is your man. The only person in the galaxy ever to stop the genocidal Achuutani, he went on from there to resurrect an empire that died forty-five thousand years ago. He's still got a ...

  • Labyrinth

    S.D. Perry

    Eager to work with the famous Doctor Paul Church, who is conducting experiments on a fascinating alien species, Colonel Doctor Tony Crespi and Lieutenant Sharon McGuinnes uncover a shocking truth at the space station Innominata. Original....

  • Malicious Intent

    Michael A. Stackpole

    THEY KILLED HIS LEADER. THEY STOLE HIS CLAN. THEY WANT HIM DEAD. In the wake civil war that nearly devastated the Jade Falcons and pushed his own Wolf Clan into nonexistence, Vlad of the Wards emerges harboring a powerful secret. He intends to use...

  • The Night the Heads Came

    William Sleator

    Leo and Tim are abducted by aliens -- and find themselves in the middle of an intergalactic feud Leo is driving his best friend, Tim, to the station to catch the midnight train to New York City, where Tim hopes to sell his science fiction drawings to...

  • Odyssey

    Barbara Walton

    WILL A LEAPER LEARN HIS LESSONS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? In 1983, in a small town in upstate New York, Sam Beckett has a problem. He's Leaped into a brilliant but troubled boy named Sean O'Connor who's part of a gifted students program called Olympic...

  • Orion's Dagger

    P.K. McAllister

    Preparing to launch his cloudship on its maiden voyage to the Orion Nebula, Pov Janusz uneasily witnesses the effects of the consortium alliance on his crew, which has been divided by former allegiances. Original....

  • The Tranquillity Alternative

    Allen Steele

    On the dark side of the moon, six missile silos stand in silence, poised for a war that never happened. Today, they will be taken over by corporate interests. Tomorrow, they will be activated......

  • Virtual Destruction

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    Virtual reality is the technology of the future. Groundbreaking. Dangerous. Almost limitless in its potential. It could replace nuclear power as the most coveted knowledge on the planet. And in a supersecret installation in California, under the most...

  • The Wind After Time

    Chris Bunch

    BLAST FROM THE PAST Ten years had passed since mankind had won the Great War. The dreaded Al'ar, loathsome aliens who killed by mere sight or touch, had been vanquished. Now they were gone. forgotten. and humanity was free to expand throughout the...

  • X Men Twilight of the Age of Apocalypse

    Marvel Book Group

  • X-Men: Dawn of the Age Apocalypse

    Jeph Loeb

  • Alibis

    Robert DiChiara

    A SHATTERING DEATHBeautiful home, beautiful wife, beautiful life. To the casual observer, prosperous real estate executive Carl Rodman lives a perfectly ordered existence in the chic seaside town of Hollowsport. But scratch the surface and the pain o...

  • Bowker's Bonfire

    Tony Caxton

    Three months after members of a family living over a small shop die in an arson fire, Inspector Bowker is assigned to solve the baffling case and embarks on an investigation that leads to newpaper harassment, anonymous threats, and the murder of a po...

  • The Enemy Within

    Larry Bond

    What it a foreign nation launched a war against the United States within its own borders? America's largest cities are in flames. Its majestic landmarks are in ruins. Electronic sabotage cripples its communications systems. Race battles against r...

  • F2F

    Phillip Finch

  • The House Has Eyes

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Moving to the old Everhart mansion, which is believed to be haunted, newcomer Charles fears the strange incidents that are taking place in his new home and asks the Casebusters to find out if ghosts or pranksters are responsible. Simultaneous....

  • The Information

    Martin Amis

    Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal -- they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tend...

  • Jaded

    Nick Gaitano

    Although Jake Phillips had recently been the golden boy of Chicago's elite homicide division, now he finds himself on the verge of suspension. Having recently put everything on the linerisking his job, his marriage, and everything he held most dearto...

  • Jamestown

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Gilda, Fallon, Noshi: Three children, the sole survivors of the Roanoke massacre. Fallon, the oldest, made a solemn pledge to protect his younger charges at all costs. But before long they are torn apart; Fallon is sentenced to death, saved at the la...

  • Nathan's Run

    John Gilstrap

    Nathan Bailey knows life is unfair. He knows how cruel people can be, even in the face of innocence and youth. He knows how sometimes you have to kill to defend yourself; and that when you do, you'd better be ready to run--fast and hard. Now, fleeing...

  • The Nylon Hand of God

    Steven Hartov

    Israeli Military Intelligence agents Eytan Eckstein and Benni Baum are about to conclude a delicate prisoner swap between Israel and her nemesis, Iran. But when a suicide bombing at the Israeli embassy in New York throws the plan into chaos, they di...

  • The Poison Tree

    F.M. O'Rourke

    Growing up to become a member of the IRA after his father is killed by British soldiers, Billy Quinn becomes an unsuspecting pawn in a terrorist plot that targets an innocent girl and her doting grandfather...

  • Roanoke: The Lost Colony

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Series premiere special price! Roanoke: The Lost Colony recounts the life of Jocelyn Colman, whose faith is tested and refined when she follows the husband she barely knows to an unexplored land. Jocelyn struggles with her husband's bitterness and gu...

  • Rumpole and the Angel of Death

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The irascible but always entertaining Rumpole is back, this time in a series of short stories that have him facing the usual assortment of human detritus at the Old Bailey. Rumpole's delightful compatriots--the determined and politically correct Miz ...

  • Something to Hide

    Peter Levine

    Planning to turn in his dissertation and leave Yale behind, graduate student Zach Blumberg is devastated when his work, a study of an obscure nihilistic French philosopher, mysteriously disappears just before a fellow student is murdered...

  • Sub Zero

    John T. Campbell

    When a heavily armed assault team is dispatched from North Korea and prepares to grab the United States's most devastating military secrets, an undertrained, outgunned band of servicemen, scientists, and civilians becomes the nation's only hope. Orig...

  • The Sword of General Englund

    Donald Honig

    In 1876, Captain Thomas Meynard is sent to Fort Larkin, a small military outpost in the Dakota Territory, to investigate the murder of General Alfred Englund and uncovers the shocking truth about the crime . . . much to the military's dismay. 10,000 ...

  • Tapes of the River Delta

    Peter Cunningham

    Committing a murder after thinking about doing so for most of his life, Irish fugitive Theo Shortcourse remembers the events that led up to his act, in a chilling saga that spans three generations of a nineteenth-century town. A first novel....

  • True Confessions

    Mary Bringle

    Grace Peacock longs for the world of true romance stories as she struggles with the absurdities of modern life as she copes with ex-husbands, raffish friends, a loving mother, a disapproving ex-mother-in-law, an imaginary daughter, and unfulfilled dr...

  • Virtually Eliminated

    Jefferson Scott

    As the deadly, self-proclaimed "Patriot" stalks the virtual reality computer Net, only one man-virtual reality programmer and committed Christian Ethan Hamilton-has the professional expertise, conviction, and supernatural guidance to pursue the high-...

  • Would My Fortune Cookie Lie?

    Stella Pevsner

    Alexis worries a great deal--about her mother's threat to move the family from their Chicago condominium to a house in the suburbs and about the strange man who has been shadowing her and her friend Suzy--but after Alexis confronts the man, she learn...

  • Belladonna

    Jenna Ryan

    Bella Conlan was a woman with a past... One she couldn't remember. The first nine years of her life were shrouded in a mist as thick as the fog of her native San Francisco--and now those lost years were coming back to haunt her. Then out of the da...

  • Dark Road Home

    Karen Harper

    PASSION AND ADVENTURE IN AMISH COUNTRY Attorney Brooke Benton comes to the Maplecreek Amish community to escape the stalker who terrorized her after her last murder case. She feels safe running a friend's quilt shop, but the homespun Amish frown o...

  • Devil's Food

    Janice Weber

    A sly, witty mystery features two extraordinary sisters--one a master chef and the other a renowned actress--who juggle husbands, lovers, the Hollywood media, and their own identities to catch a thief. By the author of Frost the Fiddler. ...

  • Fair Game

    Janice Kaiser

    WHEN IT COMES TO POWER, MONEY AND PASSION EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS... FAIR GAME. Dana Kirk is afraid. At first it seemed like simple harassment -- a few crank calls, some anonymous gifts. Then the threats become more specific and more direct. Be...

  • The Impostor

    Cassie Miles

    Who was he? The man's name was Dashiell and he was an angel -- or at least that's what he told Liz Carradine. But he dressed in a down to earth trench coat and a fedora, and he sweet-talked Liz as if he were a wisecracking detective from t...

  • Leanna: Possession of a Woman

    Marie Kiraly

    Devastated by personal loss, Hailey, a writer, journeys to New Orleans, where she becomes obsessed with the voodoo legends of the region and with the life and death of the beautiful Leanna, a bewitching woman whose spiritual seduction drives Hailey t...

  • Love and Lies

    Dawn Stewardson

    If walls could speak, what tales of passion, adventure and intrigue would they tell? Bride's Bay Resort: a luxurious playground with a colorful past and a romantic present! Generations of Jermains have catered to the rich and famous at their exclu...

  • Lucky Devil

    Patricia Rosemoor

    He was a cowboy to be reckoned with... JoJo Weston tried not to be impressed by the obviously dangerous man standing before her...oozing sensuality. Lucky was a Donatelli - not to be trusted, not to be messed with. Could he possibly even be the on...

  • Montana Sky

    Nora Roberts

    When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now his three daughters--each born of a different marriage, and each unknown by the others--are gathered to hear the reading of the will. But the women are shocked to l...

  • Wild Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE OUTCAST RETURNED TO CLAIM HIS LEGACY -- AND HER HEART When Jason Hawk, bastard son of industrialist Aaron Hawk, came to his father's funeral, he stunned Aaron's greedy widow, Alise, and transformed the life of Aaron's executive a...

  • Charade of Hearts

    Paula Tanner Girard

    TWO WRONGS... Baron Copley had a secret: He was bankrupt. He had Roxwealde Castle, a toothless lion, and an inebriated valet; what he needed was a rich wife. So he invited the most eligible ladies of the beau monde to a house party. But to transform...

  • Courting Christina

    Claudette Williams

    THE LADY HAD MUCH TO LEARN... Before her guardian died, Christina had been a happy, high-spirited country beauty with no pretensions. She concealed her fair hair under a cap, wore britches, and rode to hounds like a hunt master. She didn't want...

  • The Duke's Desire

    June Calvin

    Duty and Desire The beautiful Viscountess Deborah Silverton never wished to wed again. The death of her hateful husband had ended an unspeakable nightmare. On the other hand, she desperately wanted to see her sixteen-year-old daughter Jennifer saf...

  • The Lady and the Spy

    Monique Ellis

    "Tis A Scandalous Season...When A Spinster Becomes A Femme Ftale! Lady Serena Duchesne had a reputation to uphold as a formidable, eccentric spinster. She also had a secret: she was the anonymous author of the most daring novel ever written about th...

  • Lord Ramsay's Return

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Lovely, young Miss Prudence Stanhope was intimately acquainted with the danger of men's desires, and the devices and deceits designed to undo a lady's defenses. Already she had survived one such campaign of conquest with her illusions shatter...

  • Scandal's Daughter

    Carola Dunn

    A home in a harem simply wouldn't do for prim Miss Cordelia Courtenay. Her impetuous mama had created a scandal by dragging Cordelia along as she traveled the world. Now, her death had left Cordelia stranded in Turkey...where the pasha decreed sh...

  • The Unromantic Lady

    Penelope Stratton

    SHE BELIEVED LOVE WAS FOOLISH - UNTIL IT TAUGHT HER OTHERWISE! Diantha Halstow liked to declare that love was nothing but a mere illusion to trap fools. Rexford Lytham, Earl of Chartridge, couldn't agree more. He was, Diantha thought, a most sens...

  • Dearly Beloved

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    TO HAVE... On a windswept New England island, he waits, fingering the satin-and-lace wedding gowns he's had made for each of them...the dresses they will wear when he kills them. TO HOLD... Three women have come to the Bramble Rose Inn. For ...

  • Dreamhouse

    Alison Habens

    Celia Small has spent years planning her engagement party, from the food she'll serve to the dress she'll wear. When she finally met her fiance, it was less a romantic event than a satisfying check mark next to the last item on a long list of tasks. ...

  • Song in a Strange Land

    Gilbert Morris

    Two young men united by blood but divided by loyalties court the affections of Jeanne Corbeau in a conflict that allows no neutrals.

    A Long, Dangerous Journey into the Crucible of the American Revolution!

    Dake Bradford was a blaz...

  • The Last Integrationist

    Jake Lamar

    Attorney General Melvin Hutchinson, who's black, is President Troy McCracken's first choice to fill the vacant vice presidency after the current veep suffers a stroke. Hutchinson is a living symbol of law and order in this near-future America, where ...

  • The Wheel of Justice

    William E. Holland

    Brad Chapman, an enterprising Minnesotan who lives with his family in an American enclave just outside Moscow, views Russia as a land of unlimited opportunity. JorSov, the joint Venture he's formed with the Russians to rebuild the postal system, has ...

  • And One to Die On

    Jane Haddam

    A BIRTHDAY BASH TO DIE FOR! That's what Bennis Hannaford and ex-FBI special agent Gregor Demarkian are in for when they accept an invitation to the one hundredth birthday party of a Hollywood legend. The reclusive Tasheba Kent, femme fatale of the s...

  • Before She Dies

    Steven F. Havill

    "If what you're hiding is motive, Gastner will ferret it out and do what needs to be done. An outstanding mystery." --Booklist starred reviewPosadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersheriff Bill Gastn...

  • The Daughters of Cain

    Colin Dexter

    It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary--invariably dramatic--discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go a...

  • Guilty As Sin

    Tami Hoag

    A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have th...

  • In the Presence of the Enemy

    Elizabeth George

    Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else...

  • Pure Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    Responding to a call by a New Orleans police commissioner to help in a serial murder investigation, Dr. Jessica Coran faces a second challenge when a murderer she helped put away escapes from prison and comes after her. Original....

  • Romance

    Ed McBain

    THE 87th PRECINCT... is where criminals and cops share secrets, tricks, and truths, where strangers meet, fall in love, and sometimes kill. ROMANCE... is a would-be hit play about an actress in a hit play pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. Until...

  • The Wood Beyond

    Reginald Hill

    Police Inspector Peter Pascoe is looking for a place to bury his grandmum's ashes, when he stumbles upon a startling family secret--an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime. So preoccupied is Pascoe that he hardly notices the uproar in his own depart...

  • Apollo's Fault

    Miriam Raftery

    APOLLO: 1: The Greek and Roman god of sunlight, prophecy, music, and poetry 2: A man of graceful beauty 3: The wrinkled Shar-Pei puppy belonging to beautiful young Taylor James Stubborn and tenacious, Apollo would lead Taylor on the romantic adven...

  • Beyond the Misty Shore

    Victoria Barrett

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON Cecilia and Colin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecilia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the arms of...

  • Daniel's Gift

    Barbara Freethy

    RECKLESS YOUTH . In her impetuous summer of love, Jenny St. Claire found Luke Sheridan--her dashing knight in intern's scrubs. But a fast-track future and rigid, ambitious parents drove passion out of Luke's life. And the summer ended, leaving Jenny...

  • Destiny Awaits

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    STRANDED IN THE PAST Tess Harper was sure the little woman who appeared at her bedside wanted ransom from her wealthy parents. The last thing she expected was to be carted off to Kansas in the year 1885, where she found herself face-to-face with t...

  • Million-Dollar Bride

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Here comes the bride... Eliza Richards knew she had no business trying on that million-dollar wedding gown. It didn't look like it should cost a million bucks, so what was all the fuss about? But when she put it on, she knew. It shimmered, it spa...

  • The Pirate

    Kate Hoffmann

    SWASHBUCKLER -- GRIFFIN ROURKE: PIRATE, SPY. HE WANTS REVENGE ON THE INFAMOUS BUCCANEER, BLACKBEARD, FOR KILLING HIS FATHER. AND NOTHING -- NOT EVEN A BEWITCHING WOMAN NAMED MEREDITH -- IS GOING TO STOP HIM. When Meredith Abbott finds rugged Grif...

  • Step in Time

    Anne Barbour

    A Timeless Dilemma It was had enough that Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by the man she adored in the 1990's. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London and found herself being kissed by ...

  • Warrior Moon

    Marilyn Jordan

    Dedicated to upholding the ancient ways of her race, Phada was loath to mix with the men of her world -- especially the hard-muscled brutes who protected her homeland. Yet, despite her resolve, the young Keeper couldn't understand her attraction ...

  • Wicked

    Evelyn Rogers

    REDEEMING LOVE Gunned down after a bank robbery, Cad Rankin met a heavenly being who made him an offer he couldn't refuse. To save his soul, he had to bring peace to the most lawless town in the West. With a mission like that, the outlaw almost re...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Teresa George

    CAN SHE FIND THE PASSION SHE HAS ONLY DREAMED ABOUT... History professor Serena Brooks fears for her sanity. She has moved back into her ancestral Virginia home-only to be haunted by visions in which she is dressed like her great-grandmother... ...

  • Dress Her in Indigo

    John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even s...

  • Final Arrangements

    Donna Huston Murray

    When a Main Line horticulturist is strangled at the Philadelphia Flower Show, it's clear there's a bad seed in the cultivated crowd... Ginger Struve Barnes never expected to become a detective. The happily married mother of two, known for her red ...

  • The Luck of the Draw

    Catherine Dain

    Hired to track down Darla Hayden after she leaves her therapist with a pile of unpaid bills, Reno P.I. Freddie O'Neal finds herself up to her ears in murder when Darla turns up dead in her former lover's office...

  • The Scarlet Ruse

    John D. MacDonald

    McGee was too busy with his beloved houseboat, The Busted Flush, to pay attention to the little old man with his missing postage stamps. Except that they weren't ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars' wor...

  • She Came by the Book

    Mary Wings

    As a lesbian, I never thought that I would mind another woman wearing the same dress to a big event. But the woman was Tracy Port, and the dress looked great on her even while she was being poisoned at my feet... San Francisco P.I. Emma Victor has...

  • The Turquoise Lament

    John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Turquoise Lament is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis ...

  • Voodoo River

    Robert Crais

    L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history an...

  • The Death of Blue Mountain Cat

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    In this “exciting” sequel to The Man Who Understood Cats, psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes must solve the murder of a Native American artist (Library Journal).   Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat seems determined to provok...

  • Deep Valley Malice

    Kirk Mitchell

    THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY WILL DIE OF THIRST -- BECAUSE A MADMAN WANTS IT THAT WAY Since the time of the early pioneers, water has been California's most precious commodity. Now someone is blowing up the pipelines that carry the essential liquid d...

  • The Devil's Hatband

    Robert O. Greer

    When the daughter of a black federal judge gets carried away with her militant environmentalism, Denver bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter CJ Floyd is hired to retrieve her and the important documents she possesses. But when CJ finds her, she's...

  • The Last Client of Luis Montez

    Manuel Ramos

    Celebrating the successful acquittal of his latest client, Chicano lawyer and former activist Luis Montez is stunned when the client is killed the following day, an event that results in Luis's own arrest for murder....

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Kali O'Brien thought she'd left Silver Creek far behind. Until her father's death brings her back to her Sierra hometown, where she has to cope with past tragedy and present-day murder. All the evidence in a bizarre homicide case points to an old hig...

  • Wolf, No Wolf

    Peter Bowen

    Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed. First, two...

  • Deadly Care

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    Dr. Joanna Blalock's specialty is death - but now the fiercely dedicated forensic pathologist has more of it than even she can handle. She has a murder victim without a face to identify, a lengthening list of sudden and suspicious patient mortalities...

  • Betrayed

    Patricia H. Rushford

    Jennie McGrady is anxious to fly to Montana after her uncle, a full-blooded Indian and the owner of Dancing Waters Ranch, is injured by a bomb explosion meant to kill. Jennie is determined to solve the crime, but her instincts tell her she’s not in...

  • Big Island Search

    Mary Carpenter Reid

  • The Case of the Kidnapped Collie

    John R. Erickson

    Plato, the bird dog, has come to visit the ranch, delighting everyone with his quail-pointing skills and impeccable manners. But Plato's biggest fan happens to be Hank's dream girl, Miss Beulah the Collie. Hank's true test of devotion comes when he m...

  • Case of the Missing Ruby and Other Stories

    Walter Dean Myers

    SMIFFY BLUE IS ON THE CASE! Meet Sniffy Blue, ace crime detective of Doober City. With his sidekick, Jeremy Joe, and his faithful dog, Dog, Smiffy Blue sniffs out clues that lead him all around town in search of crooks. ...

  • Death of a Critic

    Dean Fuller

    Paris's most widely read -- and universally detested -- theatre critic falls dead just as the curtain rises on a new production. What first appears to be a heart attack is soon revealed to be something more sinister, yet there are no clues, no murder...

  • Escape from Fire Lake

    Robert Vernon

    Four young private eyes are about to become your juvenile reader's newest heroes! In this blockbuster book and video series from Tyndale and Focus on the Family, Mike, Ben, Wynnona, and Spencer unravel mysteries from their headquarters in a restored ...

  • A Killing in Quail County

    Jameson Cole

    GROWING PAINS It is the summer of 1957 and Bob White, OklahoMA, a dry rural town. Illegal moonshine is the name of game, and fifteen-year-old Mark Stoddard decides going to find a local bootlegger's still and win the of his older brother Jake, the...

  • Mysterious Menagerie

    Cynthia Manson

  • Stress

    Loren D. Estleman

    A young black cop goes head-to-head with Detroit’s elite undercover squad when one of its officers is accused of a racially fraught murderFor Paul Kubicek and the city of Detroit, 1972 ends in a haze of blood. A police officer in need of extra ...

  • Thunderbird Spirit

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Hockey stars Mike "Crazy" Keats and his new friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning a championship the least of their concerns. Dakota Smith is in trouble. But Mike "Crazy" Keats doesn't care. He is new...

  • Tropical Depression

    Laurence Shames

    Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. "the bra king," wakes up one morning contemplating suicide. Instead, he leaves his trophy wife and his thriving lingerie business, gets in his car, and drives to Key West to start a new life. Was it brilliant insight or a glit...

  • Winter Hawk Star

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Tyler is a good, solid hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler's life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program, Tyler fi...

  • The Age of Innocence

    Random House

  • Dreamer

    Ralph Thorpe

  • The Angel and the Prince

    Laurel O'Donnell

    LADY KNIGHT... The daughter of a French nobleman, Ryen De Bouries wields a sword and rides a destrier as magnificently as the knights of King Charles VI. In place of glittering ballgowns, she wears shining armor; instead of practicing gentle arts, s...

  • Apache Runaway

    Madeline Baker

    APACHE CAPTIVE Ruthless and cunning, Ryder Fallon could deal cards and death in the same breath. Yet when the Indians took him prisoner, he was in danger of being sent to the devil --- until a green-eyed angel saved his life. APACHE RUNAWAY ...

  • Bayou Rose

    Linda Madl

    IN A NEW ORLEANS PLANTATION HOUSE . . . Haunted by family scandal, orphaned Neilly Lind seeks refuge at Rosewood, a grand New Orleans plantation presided over by the eccentric Stirling women. Neilly doesn't realize that her position as a lady's comp...

  • Dance

    Judy Cuevas

    The dance of life is never danced alone... Years after fleeing to America -- from an arranged marriage -- Marie Du Gard returned to Paris a different woman. Slimmer and carefree, Marie vowed to protect her freedom at all costs -- regardless of wha...

  • Dragon's Dream

    Mary Gillgannon

    It is the sixth century A.D. Maelgwn, the Dragon of the Island is celebrated for his feats of heroism. But now he has been defeated: The tragic loss of his beloved Aurora has left him grieving and alone. But Maelgwn has a duty to his people -- an...

  • The Faery Bride

    Lisa Ann Verge

    Rhys ap Gruffydd is a man accursed, his scarred face hidden behind a black leather mask. When he hears of a lass who can heal him, he acts without honor: he kidnaps her. But Aileen O'Conaire is no fey child; she is a woman, and she will resist--and a...

  • Farewell the Heart

    Meg Alexander

    LORD ASHBY WAS NO GENTLEMAN! While staying at her brother-in-law's estate, Harriet Woodthorpe had no idea what was in store for her or her sister. It soon became clear that the family thought the Woodthorpe women beneath them. Harriet bristled...

  • The Fires of Freedom

    Sally Laity; Dianna Crawford

    Ben Haynes, postrider for the Patriots, is in love with Abigail Preston, a young widow under the control of her domineering mother-in-law. Ma Preston, however, is not about to allow the two to marry. The last thing the old woman wants is for Abigail ...

  • Fool's Paradise

    Tori Phillips

    'TWAS NO LAUGHING MATTER When fleeing an odious arranged match, the Lady Elizabeth Hayward found herself under the protection of famed court jester Richard Tarleton. But even disguised as the fool's boy apprentice, there was no hiding the fact tha...

  • Gambler's Daughter

    Laura DeVries

    Forfeiting half of her Montana ranch when her brother loses a gambling bet, Kathleen McBride becomes the reluctant partner of Chance Ballinger, who falls in love with Kathleen and invites her to take the ultimate challenge. It wasn't enough that h...

  • The Goodnight Loving Trail

    Faye Adams

    Range boss Tish Walker and the arrogant cowboy Luke Bonner are thrown together when a stampede mixes her prize longhorns with his herd. On the drive together, their biggest obstacle is a passion that could break -- or forever bind-these two wranglers...

  • Highland Flame

    Lois Greiman

    PASSION'S FURY She is Flanna MacGowan, called The Flame for her fiery tresses and fierce leadership of her clan. Sworn to vengeance against the thieving Forbes, she has tricked one of their warriors and now holds the blue-eyed devil hostage. A R...

  • Homespun Bride

    Carolyn Davidson

    Instead of the wedding day Lottie O'Malley had dreamed about, she found herself faced with a funeral. James Tillman, the Missouri widower who'd sent for her to be his bride, had just died in a freak farm accident. All that greeted the nineteen-year-...

  • Honor

    Mary Spencer

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Her marriage to a cruel baron had left Amica of Lancaster frightened. And when the king sent Sir Thomas of Reed to her defense, his rough ways chilled her heart. Yet, as she grew to know the knight, she discovered that beneath his...

  • In a Pirate's Arms

    Mary Kingsley

    DANGEROUS ENCOUNTER, IRRESISTIBLE OFFER, SOARING PASSION They call him the Raven, his black cloak swirling about him like the dark mystery that hides his identity. His pirate ship swoops down on English frigates in tropical seas, and he takes what h...

  • In the Wake of the Wind

    Katherine Kingsley

    He came to her in a dream. He was all fire and passion, the golden-maned lover who was her destiny. The Dream had given Serafina solace since childhood, through years of exile in Wales. And now, on the eve of her wedding, Serafina knew that the ma...

  • The Italian House

    Teresa Crane

    “A wonderfully rich web of intrigue and romance, love and betrayal” set in 1920s Tuscany -- from the author of Freedom’s Banner (Barbara Erskine).   When Carrie Stowe unexpectedly inherits her eccentric grandmother’s Italian villa, she s...

  • Just One Kiss

    Samantha James

    JUST A DREAM Cheated out of her inheritance by a willful stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Stanton follows Nathaniel O'Connor to America -- eager to accept the dashing shipbuilder's proposal of marriage. But it is a stranger who greets the penniless miss a...

  • Lion Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    The daughter of a powerful Scottish wiccan, she journeys across the Ottoman empire with only her magical arts to guide her. The son of an English nobleman, he has been stripped of his lands and title. Now he prowls the Mediterranean as a pirate K...

  • Lonewolf's Woman

    Deborah Camp

    SWEET TEMPTATION Orphaned, penniless, and determined to keep her family together, Elise St. John hastily arranges to marry the half-Apache Missouri landowner who has agreed to adopt her young sister. It is a marriage in name only, intended to make t...

  • The Love Knot

    Sue Deobold

    All her life, Catherine Clifford dreamed of finding a true and gentle love. And the spirited beauty was certain to find such a man at the elegant court of Richard II. But was the dashing knight who awoke her to passionate bliss really an arrogant...

  • Maggie's Pride

    Deborah Wood

    SHE WASN'T READY TO SETTLE DOWN. HE WASN'T WILLING TO LET HER GO. MAGGIE: Captain of her own steamboat, Maggie loved her rugged life on Oregon's Willamette River. She didn't think she had room in her life for a son ... until she f...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Sharon Ihle

    Liberty Ann Justice ran her family's newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming Territory, with all the fire of a born and bred journalist. When a handsome, silver-tongued stranger named Donovan came to town, Libby mistook him for her employer's son -- the man tr...

  • Midnight Rider

    Kat Martin

    SHE WAS HIS CAPTIVE. HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE WAS FORBIDDEN TO HAVE... As soon as the tall, handsome Spaniard leaned down from his stallion to offer her a rose, Caralee McConnell knew California held danger. But all too quickly she was forced to den...

  • Murmur of Rain

    Patricia Vaughn

    Attempting to support herself as a musician in 1890s Paris, headstrong Lauren Dufort attracts the attention of cultured Roget de Martier, whose family hides a troubled and evil history that eventually alienates Lauren. He gave her an illustrious n...

  • Once Upon a Time

    Constance O'Banyon

    DANGEROUS LIAISON Since childhood, her true identity has been a kept secret. Now, Jilliana, queen of the idyllic country Talshamar, must produce an heir in order to save her subjects from the evil stranglehold of King Henry II of England. Princ...

  • The Outlaw

    Nicole Jordan

    BRANDED BY DESIRE Lovers in the midst of a lawless Colorado range war, Jake McCord and Caitlin Kingsly boldly forsake their feuding families for a blazing, forbidden passion. Then Caitlin's brother is killed by her beloved--and the beautiful hellion...

  • Paper Moon

    Patricia Rice

    SHINING DREAMS, BLAZING PASSIONS Janice Harrison looked like a dowdy schoolmarm to the citizens if Mineral Springs, Texas, as long as no one saw her with her golden hair loose around her white shoulders and her perfect body free from its corset s...

  • The Passion of Dellie O'Barr

    Cindy Bonner

    Everybody in McDade thought of Dellie O'Barr as "the good little sister." Dellie has always done what her father wanted her to do; she even married the suitor her older sister refused -- an earnest man with a college education, a big ranch and fine h...

  • The Pearl Stallion

    Rae Muir

    SAVAGE! Innocent Dina Wilmount hid aboard The Pearl Stallion, desperate to return to England. But the vessel provided no safe harbor, for she soon learned that the price of her passage would be her soul. Cast out on London's streets, Anson Sau...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Rebecca Sinclair

    Gabrielle Carelton is one of Queen Elizabeth's most devoted ladies-in-waiting. But her loyalty is put to the test when Her Majesty commands her to marry Scotsman Collin Douglas. Then, on the eve of her wedding, Gabrielle is kidnapped by Collin's twin...

  • Plainsong for Caitlin

    Elizabeth M. Rees

    Caitlin With the terrible news of a disaster at sea, fifteen-year-old Caitlin's world crumbles, as does that of her older sister Rebecca. Orphaned and with meager funds, the sisters leave New Bedford to begin a new life on the western frontier. Swee...

  • Pride of Lions

    Morgan Llywelyn

    Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. The Ireland of 1014 was a drea...

  • The Ring

    Sylvia Halliday

    Determined to find the charming viscount who had stolen her heart and then sailed away to the colonies, Prudence Allbright books passage on a ship bound for Virginia and forges a daring alliance with a man with his own dark past. Prudence Allbrig...

  • Surrender to the Dawn

    Annee Cartier

    Beautiful Gwen Marsh was one of 1890's London's luckiest debutantes... until she was attacked by the Lancer, a shadowy killer who targeted young society women. Scarred emotionally and physically, she tried to lose herself in charity work. But now she...

  • Sweet Laurel

    Millie Criswell

    Fiercely determined to become an opera singer, innocent Laurel arrives in Denver where a bawdy saloon is the only place she can find work. Suddenly she is wearing shockingly low-cut gowns, singing to drunken hooligans, and feeling more than a little ...

  • Texas Lonesome

    Alice Duncan

    SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...

  • Texas Renegade

    Dana Ransom

    Kenitay -- the handsome, mixed-breed Texan who felt he didn't belong in the world of either the white man or the Indian. Leisha -- the headstrong, caring woman who loved him enough to show him the way to a place of his own. Leisha and Kenit...

  • Touchstone

    Linda Hilton

    Aurelia Phillips, Nethergate Hall's resident spinster -- a quiet, reserved miss whose inability to tell even a polite lie had made her unmarriageable in London society -- expected death to come calling. Her adopted grandfather, the Duke of Winter...

  • Violet // A Worthy Man

    Leigh Greenwood

    HEALING HEART Broken and bitter, Jefferson Randolph could never forget all he had lost in the War Between The States -- or forgive those he had fought. Long after most of his six brothers had found wedded bliss, the former Rebel soldier kept himse...

  • Wake Not the Dragon

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Traveling to newly conquered Wales, Lady Gizela de Montpellier seeks to join her husband only to encounter instead Rhys ap Cynan, a Welsh chieftain who has vowed to sacrifice anything in order to rid his country of the hated English. LOVE AND WAR ...

  • Warrior's Deception

    Diana Hall

    Love Had No Place In The Life Of. Roen De Galliard, Knight Of Normandy For the past had taught him well the perfidy of women, and the beauteous Lady Lenora was likely no different. But now duty called for him to ferret out a traitor--by surrenderi...

  • Western Rose

    Lynna Banning

    The Schoolmarm Needed a Lesson.... And Jake Bannister was just the man to teach Sally Maguire a thing or two. Especially if it would win him the grassland he needed to save his ranch. But would staying after school get him more than he'd bargained f...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Rexanne Becnel

    HE HAD THE SMILE OF A FALLEN ANGEL. SURE. EASY. SEDUCTIVE. He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with ...

  • White Wind

    Susan Edwards

    GOLDEN SPLENDOR When her beloved stepfather died, lovely young Sarah Cartier knew it was time to set out on her own -- to escape her evil guardian's clutches and perhaps to discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah didn't make it far before...

  • Bad Hare Day

    R.L. Stine

    PICK A SCARE. ANY SCARE. Trick cards, floating scarves, disappearing doves. Tim Swanson loves magic tricks. Someday he wants to be a real magician. Just like his all-time favorite hero, Amaz-0. But then Tim goes to Amaz-O's show. And he finds out hi...

  • Camp Zombie III: The Lake's Revenge

    Megan Stine

    Returning to Camp Zombie when their grandparent's RV breaks down by an all-too-familiar lake, the Alexander cousins prepare for trouble as the otherworldly campers from the previous year emerge from the murky depths. Original....

  • The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek

    R.L. Stine

    HE'S OUT TO TAKE OVER...YOUR LIFE! Top secret and dangerous. That's what your mom, a famous scientist, calls the research she's been doing at the labs of Dr. Eeek. You're dying to know what it's all about. Then one day you get lost in the labs. Bef...

  • Dominion

    Bentley Little

    His attempts at fitting in at a new school complicated by disturbing dreams, Dion Semele befriends Penelope Daneam, an orphan who has been raised by nuns, and the two become catalysts for a reign of incredible terror. Reissue....

  • Don't Go to the Principal's Office

    M.T. Coffin

    The students at Crosswell Elementary School are terrified by their new principal when thunder and lightning shake the building every time he enters it, and rumors credit him with inflicting creepy punishments on disobedient kids. Original....

  • Eye of the Fortuneteller

    A.G. Cascone

    Shaken by the prophecies of Madame Valda, who tells her that her fearless ways are foolish, life-long Fear Street resident Kelsey Moore finds her worst nightmares coming true when spooky incidents begin to plague her. Original....

  • Fright Knight

    Connie Laux

    HE IS A LIVING KNIGHTMARE. Mike loves hanging out in his father's weird little museum on Fear Street®. It is full of cool stuff -- a guillotine, a mummy, a bunch of spooky wax figures. Mike's favorite is a suit of armor. At least it was his f...

  • The Listeners

    Bebe Faas Rice

    Moving to a huge mansion in a Washington, D.C., suburb, sixteen-year-old Kathy learns that the house has a disturbing past involving a murdered family and an escaped killer, and begins to fear that the killer has returned. Original....

  • The Mountain

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE ONLY LAW IS: SURVIVE! What started as an adventure hike to Hag's Tooth Mountain soon turns into a nightmare for Jeanette Taylor and her four friends. Caught by a flood, crossed by a killer -- the struggle turns deadly. Is Jean...

  • A New Fear

    R.L. Stine

    The Fear name brings fortune...and doom. The dark power of the Fear family consumes all those connected with it. The Fears. Those they love -- and hate. The entire town of Shadyside. All are tainted forever by the evil of the family's curse. No one ...

  • Prototype

    Brian Hodge

    Meeting an injured man in the hospital who warded off three attackers, Adrienne finds her life forever changed by Clay, a genetically engineered individual who has been programmed to be one of the most dangerous people on earth. Original....

  • Secret Admirer

    R.L. Stine

    A young actress draws a sinister spotlight in this spooky installment in R.L. Stine’s bestselling Fear Street series -- now with a fresh new look!Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when ...

  • Song of the Vampire

    Carmen Adams

    Believing that peace has returned to sleepy Blue Mesa after dispatching the vampire members of the The Band, Megan and Iris find their lives disrupted again when a group of the undead invades the beach town of Turo. Original....

  • The Stalker

    Carol Ellis

    Performing in a school production of Grease, Janna is delighted when her talents win her much praise and the attentions of an apparent fan, until the harmless token gifts of flowers and notes become the threatening moves of a stalker. Origina...

  • Tarnished Gold

    V.C. Andrews

    GABRIEL LANDRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER BELOVED BAYOU Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octaviou...

  • Tears of Blood

    Daniel Parker

    Desperate to protect her boyfriend, Jean-Paul, from his evil twin brother, Alison James joins the brother's mysterious Red Sect and learns about his dark magic, which threatens to overcome her unless Jean-Paul can save her. Original....

  • The Two Dead Girls

    Stephen King

    The Green Mile tells the story of two men, a prison guard and his new death row inmate, and their suddenly intertwined lives. What would it be like to walk those last 40 yards to the electric chair, knowing you were going to die there? What would it ...

  • When Darkness Calls

    Janet E. Gill

    Trying to fit in as the new kid in town, Ellie is delighted when she is singled out by the most popular clique in school until she learns of the group's ugly cult membership and its devotion to murderous secrets. Original....

  • The Witch's Revenge

    Christopher Pike

    Encounter witchly wonders in this sixth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!The time has come for Adam and his friends to again face Spooksville’s most powerful citizen, Ms. Ann Templeton. ...

  • Zombies Don't Do Windows

    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

    There's no April freshness at the Pinch family's house.  Their new cleaning lady smells disgusting.  But that's pretty normal...for a zombie!  And she's turning everyone else in Critter Falls into zombies, too.  It's up to the Howls to stop h...

  • Axe for an Abbot

    Elizabeth Eyre

    Popes, cardinals, whores, and thieves are among the players in this fifth Renaissance mystery featuring the enigmatic knight Sigismondo and his sidekick Benno.Tricked into a murder, Sigismondo finds himself in the middle of a no-holds-barred politica...

  • Falconer and the Face of God

    Ian Morson

    A MEDIEVAL MORALITY PLAY SETS THE STAGE FOR A DEADLY PERFORMANCE... Almost everyone in his actors' troupe has reason to kill the vile and tyrannical Stefano de Askeles, and when lie crew lands in Oxford to put on a local production, someone does j...

  • Pay the Piper

    Kate Kingsbury

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...

  • Pentecost Alley

    Anne Perry

    The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But, under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the nam...

  • A Season of Knives

    P.F. Chisholm

    In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. The presence of his true love, the marri...

  • The Tears of the Madonna

    George Herman

    Leonardo da Vinci and his companion, Niccolo, a dwarf with a photographic memory, race about Renaissance Venice in search of a priceless diamond necklace, a quest that puts them in the middle of an assassination plot in the Mantuan court...

  • Traitor's Gate

    Anne Perry

    Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood ment...

  • Ashes of the Sun

    Hanovi Braddock
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    NOTHING TO LOSE? Ayesh knows that danger lurks in the Miritiin Mountains, and danger is just what she wants. With her beloved cities of Neah turned to dust and rubble in the goblin wars, with even their memory fading to legend, what reason does sh...

  • King of the Dead

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    With virtually unlimited powers as King of the Dead, Azalin still cannot find peace. Tortured by the death of his son., the unwilling ruler has come to despise the world of darkness and horror over which he reigns. From his previous life as a powe...

  • Murder in Cormyr

    Chet Williamson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Tired of the political machinations of his egotistical fellow wizards, Benelaius retires from the College of War Wizards to take up residency in Cormyr, where he lives peacefully until he and his legman, Jasper, are forced to investigate the murder o...

  • Sands of Deception

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Corey Lane

    Norman Zollinger

    Driven by rage and pride, Sheriff Corey Lane goes to face an Apache war chief, while tenderfoot reporter Jim McPherson tags along, wondering if he is following the sheriff to glory or to self-destruction...

  • Dead Man's River

    Jon Sharpe

    Torn in opposing directions when two beautiful women, who hate each other, seek his help at the same time, Skye Fargo is caught up in a struggle that quickly turns bloody and must discover which lady is telling him the truth. Original....

  • The Escape From Home

    Avi

    Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them toge...

  • The Gathering Storm

    Wally E. Davis

  • Gun Gentlemen

    Max Brand

    Finding himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, renowned Old West gunslinger Lucky Bill swears that he will clear his name before he can be caught. Reprint....

  • Incident at Sun Mountain

    Todhunter Ballard

    Sent to Nevada to investigate reports of Rebel activity around the Comstock Lode, Ken Kenglish finds himself in a region filled with miners, gamblers, heroes, killers, Union supporters, and Southern sympathizers. Original....

  • Jokers Are Wild

    Caleb Pirtle

  • Longarm and the Angel of Inferno

    Tabor Evans

    After rescuing a local beauty from a barroom brawl, Longarm finds himself railroaded into jail and sentenced to hard labor in Mexico, until the fetching young lady whom he rescued sets out to break him out of the jail. Original....

  • People of the Plains

    Ken Englade

    Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands...

  • The Proving Ground

    Wally E. Davis

  • Queen of the May

    Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

    When Dr. Mike gets overly busy with seasonal flu cases, Colleen decides to keep her school problems to herself, a situation that teaches her a lesson in communication when things spiral out of control...

  • Roman Hasford

    Douglas C. Jones

    After the War Between the States, Roman Hasford headed West to carve out his own piece of the new frontier. He had suffered the untold indignities of war and was eager to seek adventure. Along the way, he helped to get a glimpse of the Indian Nations...

  • The Samaritan

    Nancy Rue

    Josiah's world seems to be falling apart. A family friend lies dying, something terrible has happened to Hope that she won't talk about, and a widow and her baby are in trouble. When Josiah reaches out to help, it seems no one wants or needs him. But...