Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • Biomarkers

    William Evans

  • Little Nina and the Radio

    Nadja

  • Bright Islands in a Dark Sea

    L. Warren Douglas

    WITCH HUNT Yan Bando suffered from the family curse -- a mindless, deadly violence that overcame him in the face of danger. And so he chose the most peaceful life he could imagine: poring over the meager documents of an era two thous.and years past,...

  • Who's Afraid of Tigers?

    John Patience

  • Museum of Unnatural History

    Kees Moerbeek

  • Santa's New Suit

    Mike Lester

  • Hocus Pocus

    Todd Strasser

  • Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit

    Tom Cowan

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    In ''The Song of Wandering Aengus'' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celti...

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

    Janet Campbell

  • Wee Sing Pop-Up Nursery Rhymes

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Grandaddy and Janetta

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Princess: Based on Hans Christian Andersen's the Princess and the Pea

    Anne Wilsdorf

    "Shunning his mother's list of marriageable girls, an enterprising young prince brings home a shepherdess named Princess. His dubious mom tests the girl's bona fides with the old pea-under-the-mattress trick. Come morning, Princess is indeed black-an...

  • Road Hog

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Anno's Twice Told Tales

    Mitsumasa Anno

    When Freddy Fox finds a book and asks his father to read it to him, Freddy's father offers his own tales based on the illustrations that accompany two tales from the Brothers Grimm--"The Fisherman and His Wife" and "The Four Clever Brothers."...

  • Nora's Roses

    Satomi Ichikawa

    In bed with a cold, Nora has only Kiki the dog, Teddy the bear, Maggie the doll, and the roses in the garden to keep her company, but a parade of friends passes by her window, each taking one of the precious roses away....

  • Chatterbox Jamie

    Nancy Evans Cooney

  • Back to Before

    Jan Slepian

    Two cousins who have each lost a parent--one to divorce, the other to a heart attack--are swept into a time warp that takes them back in time when Linny's mother was still alive and Hilary's father lived at home....

  • Magic Spring

    Nami Rhee

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Stuck-up Ferdy Factual learns that friendship takes more than just smarts Brother and Sister Bear try to welcome the new cub in town by taking him to school on his 1st day. They quickly learn that Ferdy Factual, son of the famous scientist Actual...

  • The Vampire Encyclopedia

    Matthew Bunson

    The first A-to-Z compendium on vampires and vampiric lore. In approximately 2,000 entries, from Hades to Hematomania to Lycanthropy and Lugosi, The Vampire Encyclopedia tells readers virtually everything they could possibly want to know about vampire...

  • Your Mother Was a Neanderthal

    Jon Scieszka

    Anything to avoid homework! Thanks to The Book, Joe, Sam, and Fred are back in the Stone Age, where there aren't any math problems. But there's a tribe of hostile cavewomen, a hungry-looking saber-toothed tiger, a bone-rattling earthquake, and a w...

  • A Daughter of Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    She survived the Holocaust at great personal cost. But will her past now destroy her? It’s January 1948. After suffering the horrors of years in a Nazi concentration camp, Rachel Lubetkin has at last come home to Jerusalem . . . and the family ...

  • The Return to Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • Relics

    John Desjarlais

    Consumed by an impossible longing for the lovely Baroness Blanch DuVal, trapped in the middle of a conspiracy to assassinate King Louis IX, and struggling to keep his faith, Jean-Michael finds that love, war, and treachery await him at every turn....

  • Poison Ivy and Eyebrow Wigs

    Bonnie Pryor

    In the sequel to Vinegar Pancakes and Vanishing Cream, Martin Snodgrass enters the fourth grade and tries to act more grown-up by writing love notes to his teacher, trying out for the school play, and more....

  • Blue Hearts

    Jim Lehrer

    Charles Avenue Henderson and Bruce Conn Clark shared a CIA mission in late November of 1963 that helped change the course of world history. When Henderson, now living the quiet life of a bed and breakfast owner with his beloved wife in rural West Vir...

  • The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander

    Milorad Pavic

    Two lovers in Belgrade, one from the 1700s, the other from the 1900s, reach out to each other across a gulf of time, in a story that parallels the myth of Hero and Leander. By the author of Dictionary of the Khazars. ...

  • The Tea Party Book

    Lucille Recht Penner

    Illus. in full color. Little girls will be inspired to have tea parties with this guide to the art of the tea party. Brimming with simple menus, kid-pleasing recipes, and lovely decoration and favor ideas, each party has a theme--from valentine and t...

  • Morning Comes Softly

    Debbie Macomber

    A shy Louisiana librarian, Mary Warner fears she'll always be alone--so she answers a personals ad from a rancher in Montana. Never before has she done anything so reckless, casting the only life she knows aside to travel to a strange place and marry...

  • J Is for Judgment

    Sue Grafton

    Wendell Jaffe has been dead for five years--until his former insurance agent spots him in a lusty resort bar. Now California Fidelity wants Kinsey Millhone to track down the dead man. Just two months before, his widow collected on Jaffe's $500,000 li...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    When Charlotte Metcalf, a desperate orphan, shows up on the doorstep of the Ayrtons, her father's relatives, they welcome her into their home, where Charlotte experiences a series of mysterious incidents. Original....

  • Make Lemonade

    Virginia Euwer Wolff

    Come together LaVaughn needs a part-time job. Something she could do after school to help earn money for college. Jolly needs a babysitter. Someone she could trust with two kids while she works the evening shift. It doesn't matter that LaVaughn is f...

  • Little White Lies

    Marjorie Lewty

    What a tangled web she wove. Kate Lovell had never needed a man's help quite like she needed Will Raven's--without him she couldn't hope to manage her aunt's hotel in Normandy. At least, that's how she explained Will's p...

  • The Willing Captive

    Lee Stafford

    Six months was hardly a life sentence! After all, Linnett found Cassie, her six-year-old charge, a delight. She would enjoy the time she spent helping the little girl with her English. It was spending time with Max di Angeli, Cassie's fathe...

  • Season of the Monsoon

    Paul Mann

    A corpse has been discovered in a lake in Film City, the Hollywood of India. The victim has been so badly mutilated that it is impossible to identify the body as male or female, let alone give it a name. It is clear to Inspector George Sansi that thi...

  • Seaward

    Brad Leithauser

  • Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry

    Elizabeth McCracken

  • The Best Little Boy in the World

    John Reid

    The classic account of growing up gay in America.
    "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the ...

  • Race to Danger

    Stephanie Calmenson

    In search of transportation for his prom, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones heads for the laboratories of Thomas Edison, only to find himself caught up in an investigation into the theft of the designs for a new electric car. Original....

  • This Home We Have Made

    Anna Hammond

    Inspired by a mural painted by formerly homeless children in New York City, this story, told in both English and in Spanish, centers on a young girl who joins a parade of animals and musicians and finds a home....

  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Where There's Smoke

    Sandra Brown

    No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tacket...

  • The Lover

    A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua

    A man searches for his wife’s lover during the Yom Kippur War, in a novel by the award-winning author hailed as the “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times).   In Haifa, at the dawn of Israel’s 1973 war, the lives of a middle-class garage...

  • Ten Sly Piranhas

    William Wise

  • Big Pig's Hat

    Willy Smax

  • Journey's End

    R.C. Sherriff

    The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope an...

  • The Strawberry Dog

    Betty Paraskevas

  • The Starlight Cloak

    Jenny Nimmo

    A colorfully illustrated Celtic version of the Cinderella story follows the adventures of the young princess Oona, who is mistreated by her wicked sisters until her foster mother reveals her magical powers....

  • No Problem Kit

    Eileen Browne

    Mouse's present from Rat contains so many pieces that Mouse and his friends puzzle over which construction they build is the right one, in a tale that includes a seven-piece kit for readers to make their own crazy machine....

  • Mrs. Wolf

    Shen Roddie

  • Giving

    Shirley Hughes

  • Bouncing

    Shirley Hughes

  • Why the Sea Is Salt

    Vivian French

    In a retelling of a Norwegian folktale, kindly Matilda's generosity toward a stranger brings her a magic butter churn that gives her family everything it needs, and brings her greedy uncle exactly what he deserves....

  • Double Vision

    Diana Hendry

  • Fly by Night

    June Crebbin

  • Don't Climb Out of the Window Tonight

    Richard McGilvray

    Full-color illustrations mark this story, written by a seven-year-old boy, about a little girl who comes up with ten excellent reasons, including flying ghosts and jogging giants, for why she should not climb out her window....

  • Danilo the Fruit Man

    E.G. Valens

  • Cobra Curse

    Bill Dolan

  • Zero Hour

    Patrick F. Rogers

  • Main Event

    James D. Long

    BATTLES FOR A BATTLEMECH Dispossessed in the battle of Tukayyid, former Corn Guard soldier Jeremiah Rose wants nothing more than to strike back at the Clans who destroyed his 'Mech and his career. Dreams of swift vengeance turn to nightmares when ...

  • The Long Trail North

    Robert J. Conley

  • Bandit's Blood

    Clint Hawkins

  • Nevada Guns

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams thinks that Allentown, Nevada, will be just the place for a break from the hot, dusty trail -- the kind of town where you can find a soft bed and a soft woman. But as soon as he checks into the hotel, Clint finds that looks can be deceivi...

  • Glory Trail

    Mike Blakely

  • Moon Lake Massacre

    Jon Sharpe

    In the town of Moon Lake, Utah, to help his old friend, Ben Adams, Skye Fargo discovers that Ben has been murdered, and soon he is in the middle of a savage struggle between a smooth-talking rancher and a group of farmers. Original....

  • Sante Fe Run

    Will Camp

  • Longarm and the Diamond Snatchers

    Tabor Evans

  • Blood on the Plains

    Judd Cole

  • Wild River Massacre

    Jack Curtis

  • Lone Star and the San Diego Bonanza

    Wesley Ellis

    A killer goes for gold -- and leaves Jessie and Ki in the dust of his deadly trail...When Jessie's old pal, Lawson Blaine, turns up dead, the Lone Star team searches for the killer, certain that it is the same person who recently robbed Wells Fargo....

  • Texas Medico // Dusty Boots

    Lee Floren

    Tod Morgan and his hard-bitten wranglers face off against frontier veterinarian Wade Russell in "Texas Medico," and in "Dusty Boots," Kirk Roper gets in the middle of a gunfight while helping an editor friend. Original....

  • Each Time We Love

    Shirlee Busbee

    THIS UNTAMED HEART Wild and willful Savanna O'Rourke has yet to meet her match in any male -- until she is abducted by a pair of murderous outlaws who think she knows the secret to a hidden treasure. And to escape, she must join forces with the ...

  • Angel of Passage

    Joan Avery

    THE IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY With the entire country sitting uneasily on the brink of civil war, the lovely Rebecca Cunningham led a dangerous double life. A dominating force of Detroit society by day, by night she moved runaway slaves across the river ...

  • Comanche Moon

    Virginia Brown

    HE WAS A HALF-BREED GUNSLINGER WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD...SHE WAS HIS DEFIANT CAPTIVE...TWO HEARTS FATED TO CLASH AND AWAKEN TO LOVE ON THE LAWLESS NEW MEXICO PLAINS! Few dared to tangle with rugged Zack Banning, the son of a Comanche chief, and o...

  • Legacy

    Leigh Bristol

    IN CHARLESTON THE OLD SOUTH LIVED ON WITH A SMOLDERING LEGACY OF SIN, SECRETS ... AND LOVEI From one of the South's finest families, blue-eyed, auburn-haired Laurel Sinclair Laughton found that poverty could push even a lady to desperate acts --...

  • A Miss With a Purpose

    Rebecca Ashley

    HE PITIED THE POOR SOD WHO LOST HIS HEART TO THIS AUDACIOUS MISS.... Though fate had made them co-inheritors of a mill in Manchester, Arabella Fairingdale's plea for funds to improve the appalling working conditions met with Lord Ridgeton'...

  • Mississippi Flame

    Cheryl Biggs

    SHE VOWED NEVER TO GIVE HER HEART Men! Furious at being betrayed by her fickle fiance only hours before the wedding, Elizabeth Devlin packed her portmanteau and fled her Mississippi hometown in a flurry of wounded pride. But the pampered blond be...

  • Kate and the Soldier

    Anne Barbour

    The Wrong Man to Love Kate Millbank's heart beat faster when she heard that Major David Merritt was returning from the wars. For she had worshipped David ever since they had been children together. But Kate was no longer a child. She was ol...

  • A Sparkling Affair

    Mary Chase Comstock

    AN IMPETUOUS HEROINE They were really too wretched, sighed lady Selinda. She had never dreamed that the aunts who bad taken her and her younger sister in after their parents' death would turn out to be such gorgons! It was a most difficult task inde...

  • Scandal's Darling

    Nancy Bush

    IN PROPER VICTORIAN ENGLAND, THEY DEFIED CONVENTION -- AND SURRENDERED TO A PERILOUS, MAGNIFICENT LOVE! Lady Veronica Elizabeth Ashworth was the talk of London, ever since society gossip linked her with a notorious rake. To save the family reputat...

  • Bargain Bride

    Stella Cameron
    in

    A bold and breathtaking love blossoms from a marriage of convenience -- when a headstrong English miss loses her heart to the dashing knight in shining armor who rescued her from an unwanted wedding...but has designs of his own....

  • Secret Shores

    Kelly Ferjutz

    The restless daughter of a self-made shipbuilder, Samantha knows more about ships than ten men put together. She would gladly abandon ruffles and curls for the chance to make her mark in an industry she was weaned on. When tragedy strikes her family,...

  • Love's Triumph

    Christina Cordaire

    LOVE IS THE GREATEST PROTECTOR OF ALL... With both of their beloved parents gone, Elizabeth Chanders fled with her younger siblings to the estate of their guardian, the Earl of Wynmalen. Elizabeth accustomed to watching over the family was concer...

  • By Love Betrayed

    Sandra Dubay

    RELUCTANT LOVE When raven-haired Rebecca Carlyle agreed to become a spy for the British during the War of 1812, the lovely young widow had nothing but revenge on her mind--revenge for the death of her husband, who had died fighting the Americans. ...

  • Alabama Twilight

    Danette Chartier

    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 Road and visit the most majestic plantations of that gracious era... ROSE OF...

  • Phantom Lover

    Millie Criswell

    A DARING PIRATE WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD, HE WAS ALL SHE'D EVER DREAMED OF Tall, lean, his blue eyes blazing from behind his silken mask, his powerful body wrapped in a black cape, he was called "The Phantom." Danielle Sheridan had only to set eye...

  • Comanche Wind

    Genell Dellin

    Betrothed against her will while barely more than a child, lovely, impetuous Jennie O'Bannion believes her life is over. Then fate intervenes on the Texa frontier, when a proud Comanche warrior claims Jennie as his own -- abducting the strong-willed,...

  • Half-Breed's Bride

    Georgina Gentry

    Born dirt-poor Sassy Malone had only her wits and wiles to get her by in life. So when tragedy struck her soon-to-be-wed employer, the feisty lass seized her chance: Armed with a new identity, she passed herself off as a high-class lady and boarded t...

  • Rogue's Mistress/My Heart's Desire

    Jo Goodman

    A MAN SHE COULD NOT RESIST They said her father was dead, but Rennie Dennehy refused to believe that. Vowing to uncover the truth behind his strange disappearance, Rennie headed to the wilds of Colorado-and the only man who could help her. Bounty ...

  • Jacaranda Bend

    Charlotte Douglas

    PARADISE Promised in wedlock to a man she barely knew, Rowena Elliot reluctantly accompanied her father to the distant shores of America -- where fate soon left her orphaned and alone. She sought refuge at a sweeping, Florida estate in order to es...

  • Bride of the Wildcat Purchase

    Judith E. French
    in

    A half-breed tidewater planter gets more than he bargained for when the docile mail-order bride he requested turns out to be a feisty and sensuous hellion who will not be tamed...

  • Night Terror

    Adrianne Lee

    When her sister's brutal murder forces Celina Danse to return to the town she left in disgrace seven years earlier, the soap opera star finds that she cannot escape a killer's wrath. By the author of Endless Fear. Original....

  • Terms of Surrender

    Shirl Henke

    THE GAMBLER Devilishly handsome, Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado within weeks of riding into town. But there was one "property" he'd give all the rest to possess. THE LADY The glacially beautiful daughter of Starlight&#...

  • Western Enchantress

    Wendy Garrett

    A SONG IN HER HEART Risking everything to find her long-lost father, Rianne Kierney journeyed to the frigid Yukon wilderness alone...only to discover that her father's life was in a shambles, his mining claim mortgaged to a rugged but decidedly ...

  • Lady Sabrina's Secret

    Sandra Heath

    The Dangerous Duke Beautiful young widow Deborah Marchant came to Bath on a desperate mission. Her brother Richard stood accused of seduction and theft. Only Deborah could clear his name by unmasking his accuser; Lady Ann Appleby, and finding his ...

  • Passion's Song

    Jane Kidder

    SHE NEEDED PROTECTION Only a year ago, Lili Ashford, "the Chicago Songbird," was one of the most celebrated entertainers on the Mississippi River circuit. Now, thanks to a vengeful suitor, Lili was hiding out in the remote town of Durango, Colorado ...

  • Wild Conquest

    Hannah Howell

    SLAVE OF PASSION To spare her family shame, spirited Pleasance Dunstan sneaks into Tearlach O'Duine's room at night -- in order to retrieve torrid letters of love indiscreetly penned by her foolhardy sister. But her scheme is undone by Tea...

  • Mistress of the Muse

    Suzanne Hoos

    SHE WAS COMING HOME…BUT NOTHING WAS THE SAME ANYMORE When young Ashley Canell returned to the Muse, her family home, she was faced with her father’s death and her own unexpected inheritance of the Cape May mansion. But the house was no longer ...

  • Irresistible

    Donna Julian

    She's a Texas socialite who has it all: wealth, beauty and the drive to make it to the very top of the literary heap. But behind the winning smile and laughing green eyes ire the haunting memories Beige Collins can never escape--no matter bow far she...

  • The Dark Secret of Hunters Hall

    Lee Karr

    "What are you afraid of, Donna?" Deanna Banning had fled her family home in Brimstone, Colorado, harboring a secret so shaming and terrible that its burden threatened to destroy her. But after toiling as a governess in faraway New York for...

  • Heart Sounds

    Michelle Johns

    INTO HER SILENT WORLD HE BROUGHT A MUSIC SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD NEVER HEAR After a gunpowder explosion left her nearly deaf, young Louisa Halloran resigned herself to spending the rest of her life as a servant in someone else's home. Then a hand...

  • Lady Leprechaun

    Melinda McRae

    The Domineering Duke Though she was a widow with a school-age son, Emily, Viscountess Darrow was still young and lovely. But she had no wish to wed again. Her late husband had granted her an independence no other man would--and she preferred the s...

  • Contessa

    Barrie King

  • The Bride of the Unicorn

    Kasey Michaels

    IN A PAST OF LIES AND BETRAYAL, THEY SEARCHED FOR TRUTH...AND FOUND DESIRE MORGAN BLAKELY, MARQUIS OF CLAYTON: With a soul as dark as his raven black hair, England's most notorious spy had finally discovered a means of revenge against the man who ...

  • Prairie Ecstasy

    Elizabeth Leigh

    HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE'D EVER DESIRED She was one of Jennings, Louisiana's best-kept secrets--a straight-laced schoolmarm who penned daring dime novels on the side. But few knew that beneath Prairie Rose Jernigan's prim and proper exterior was a woma...

  • Belle of the Ball

    Joan Overfield

    THE LADY CHANGES HER MIND At twenty-six, Belle Portham has turned a cold shoulder on many a would-be suitor, preferring to marry for position rather than risk her considerable inheritance for some handsome rake with an eve on her fortune. Lord Mar...

  • A Sensible Match

    Anthea Malcolm

    Love can lead even the most cautious heart astray... A SENSIBLE LADY Aristocratic Alessandra di Tassio had learned her lesson in love only too well, and now, at one-and-twenty, was no longer given to giddy swoons and foolish romantic yearnings....

  • Store-Bought Woman

    Linda Lael Miller
    in

    Jilted at the altar, a young woman of refinement sets out for America's heartland after impulsively agreeing to marry a stranger - only to find herself smitten with her fiance's charmingly uncouth ruffian brother....

  • Lady in Green

    Barbara Metzger

    HER SITUATION IS ONE OF DISMAY, DISILLUSIONMENT, AND DIRE PERIL.... Annalise Avery would rather run away than marry the despicable man her stepfather has chosen for her. All he wants is her fortune anyway. Escaping with two servants, Annalise take...

  • Letters from a Stranger

    Connie Rinehold

    THEY WERE A PAIR OF LOST SOULS . . . Lovely Angela Winters had settled into a quiet life designing greeting cards at home. Filling her time with friends and activities, Angela carefully avoided the emotional risks of love. But then she wrote a cheer...

  • Scottish Ecstasy

    Rebecca Sinclair

    HE CLAIMED HER VIRTUE Scottish beau order had willingly offered herself as pledge, to be held by Alasdair "the Devil" Gray until Clan Forster could pay the fine they owed to him. She counted on her high standing and the March Wardens to prot...

  • Moon-Kissed Promises

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    Their love was a temptation beyond all imagining... He was a young man destined to seek his uncharted future in the great land that was America. But Michael Cord was haunted by a tragedy from the past --- a secret that forced him to travel from to...

  • High Sheriff of Huntingdon

    Anne Stuart
    in

    A gentle convent-bred daughter of an enterprising earl is unwillingly wed to a handsome, wicked lord - and awakens the goodness in her new husband's tormented soul with the potent power of love....

  • Once in a Blue Moon

    Penelope Williamson

    Once on a wild and windswept moor... Those who knew spoke of the infamous Trelawny men in hushed, shocked whispers. But to flame-haired Jessalyn Letty, wild, captivating child of the storm-tossed Cornish moors, McCady Trelawny was the most fascin...

  • Upland Outlaws

    Dave Duncan

    COME THE MILLENNIUM The power-mad dwarf-sorcerer Zinixo had driven Emshandar V from his throne. He had shattered the ancient Protocol that kept tenuous peace among Pandemia's warlocks. And his conquest had only begun. Somehow the deposed Impero...

  • Onslaught

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD MONEY The Brotherhood--an alliance between a North American Mafia family and a South American drug cartel--could spell doom for a newly free Russia. Fearing that a sudden crime wave might shift the balance of power back to Communism, the U.S...

  • Battle Plan

    Don Pendleton

    FIRST BLOOD The Baltic has become a powder keg, and the fuse is communist North Haakovia. Its egomaniacal leader has an arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons and an elite cell of terrorists. Unless the U.S. acts quickly, Eastern Europe will fall...

  • The Mongol

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. A slave of the savage Tatars, Casca is a champion in the blood-sports tha...

  • Cradlesong

    Jessica Palmer

  • More Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

    A collection of space-age whodunits features the tale of a precognitive alien brought to earth to make millions for a large brokerage firm, an alien telepath who performs mind-reading acts on human worlds, and seventeen other stories. Original....

  • Downtiming the Night Side

    Jack L. Chalker

    When former Air Force officer and NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned for special duty in charge of security for a nuclear power plant, he has no idea that the plant is only a cover for a top-secret project involving time travel.The government has disco...

  • The Spell of the Black Dagger

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Tabaea was an ordinary thief, sneaking and prowling and stealing for a living. Then one night while burgling a house, she witnessed a wizard teaching his apprentice a spell -- the creation of a magic dagger.

    Tabaea decided to try the magic for...

  • Jaydium

    Deborah Wheeler

    When a chain reaction between a jaydium deposit and Eril's force during a mining run send Kithri and Eril adrift in time, they are joined by a spaceman from an earlier era and an anthropologist from an alternate universe. Original....

  • The Broken Sphere

    Nigel Findley

  • McLendon's Syndrome

    Robert A. Frezza

    Ken MacKay's career in space was going nowhere. The decrepit trading ship he served on was also going nowhere: the Rustam's Slipper was grounded on Schuyler's World, a backwater planet lacking even a good bar. For diversion, Schuyler's offered bad ba...

  • The Pure Cold Light

    Gregory Frost

    Guerrilla activist and rebel journalist Thomasina Lyell discovers a destructive, mind-shattering power that threatens the future of humankind and will stop at nothing to reveal it to the world. Original....

  • Blood and Honor

    Simon R. Green

    THE ENCHANTED PRINCE Jordan had always prided himself on his acting abilities, but now he faced the challenge of his career. Magicked into looking exactly like Prince Viktor, middle son of the recently assassinated King Malcolm, Jordan had been hi...

  • Mining the Oort

    Frederik Pohl

    Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast ...

  • The Paradise War

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    From the shelter of academia, two students have come to the misty moors of Scotland to investigate the reported sightings of a mythical beast. Here where legends live, the inquisitive Simon Rawnson is seduced by the lure of the Otherworld -- and cros...

  • Hard Sell

    Piers Anthony

  • Mage Quest

    C. Dale Brittain

    Five men from Yurt--the king, his nephew, the prince, a wizard, and a priest--encounter intrigue, treachery, black magic, and a big blue djinn on their journey, and only the wizard's cleverness can save their lives. Original....

  • The Thread That Binds the Bones

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts -- and that’s the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers -- and find a place where he belongs -- Tom Re...

  • The Craft of Light

    Ru Emerson

    A WORLD OF MAGICAL ADVENTURE... ...is what three unsuspecting visitors found when they were rudely summoned from their everyday lives by an ancient Thread-wielder. As sorceress, shapeshifter, and soldier, each played a vital role in restoring to the...

  • Beachhead

    Jack Williamson

  • Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

  • Rouse a Sleeping Cat

    Dan Crawford

    THE HIGHER THE THRONE, THE THICKER THE PLOT... Only nine years old, the King of Rossacotta is a lure that attracts courtiers, nobles, ambassadors--and assassins. Nimnestl came from her native land to ensure that the child-King would live to be ...

  • Finder-Seekers

    Gayle Greeno

    THE SEEKERS VERITAS-- Their technological resources destroyed, a colonizing expedition from Earth has been stranded on the world of Methuen for over two hundred years. Their continued survival is largely due to the organization of healers known as...

  • Tower of the Gods

    Thomas A. Easton

  • The Crystal Dragon

    Richard A. Knaak

    Strange sinister dreams haunt the Wizard Cabe Bedlam and lead him to the desolate peninsula of Legar. Here an inquisitive band of wolf raiders has accidently discovered the resting place-and the sorcerous weapons-of an ancient, unhuman race, the Quel...

  • Bestsellers Guaranteed

    Joe R. Lansdale

    If you have a taste for the bizarre... BOB THE DINOSAUR GOES TO DISNEYLAND--An inflatable toy dinosaur takes a dream vacation... that's full of hot air. MY DEAD DOG, BOBBY--He's still the greatest pet in the world ... even though he doesn't do ...

  • Fossil Hunter

    Robert J. Sawyer

    Toroca, the son of Afsan the Far-Seer and a geologist searching for the rare metals needed to take his species to the stars, discovers an artifact that may reveal the true origin of the dinosaurs. Original....

  • Conan and the Gods of the Mountain

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Fleeing the sorcerous destruction of a long-lost city, Conan fights side-by-side with Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, that notorious and voluptuous she-pirate. Pursued by deadly spies and assassins, the Cimmerian and Valeria find themselves caught sq...

  • Devil or Angel

    Audra Adams

    REALLY BAD BOY Brooke Pattersen had never seen anyone like Devon Taylor. This devil-in-nodisguise had seduced her right out of the loving embrace of her family and right into his...arms. But when her father put a stop to their romance, driving Dev...

  • What About Charlie?

    Melodie Adams

    What about Daddy? Clint Blackwell was the local hero when it came to handling young troublemakers. When the rugged cowboy met that rascal Charlie Whitney, he knew the little guy only needed lots of love -- the kind of love Clint had been saving fo...

  • The Model Bride

    Pamela Bauer

    WAS IT LOVE OR OBSESSION? Model Jessie Paulson looked remarkably like Kathleen Daniels, the woman who haunted Aidan McCullough's past. The woman who had broken up his family. The woman his father had been convicted of murdering. Jessie had been...

  • Love's Awakening

    Kay Bergstrom

    Intent on recovering the nest-egg that her parents invested in a cowboy's scheme to find a lost city of gold, lawyer Sandra Carberry flies to Colorado and finds unexpected passion and romance with Russel McCloud. Original....

  • Mike's Baby

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    BODY AND SOUL When a suspicious hit-and-run driver injured state witness Joanna Nash, the authorities insisted on round-the-clock protection. The doctors insisted that she recover from her injuries, so she hired all-too-personal trainer Mike McCoy...

  • After the Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every bride and groom believes the vows exchanged on their wedding day will hold them together forever. But, as the years pass, busy lives may extinguish the passion of those vows. Sometimes it takes a near tragedy to rekindle the love...and the prom...

  • Somebody's Darling

    Sarah Benton

    College professor Stacey Anderson receives a three-million-dollar trust fund from an anonymous source, but her newfound prosperity and a whole new life-style threaten her relationship with Steve Travis. Original....

  • Stroke by Stroke

    Patt Bucheister

    TURNER--His Lips Tasted Like Hot Nights... For two years, he'd been obsessed by her mystery, intrigued by her, distance, and fascinated by the way she turned his blood to molten lava just by entering his office, but Turner Knight had never admitt...

  • Amarillo by Morning

    Bethany Campbell

    SHOW TIME--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. EVERYBODY LOVES A COWBOY And Cal McKinney is one of the b...

  • A Fleeting Moment

    Carla Cassidy

    COP IN THE KITCHEN When the local police asked Edie Turner to let them use her apartment for an undercover surveillance operation, she was happy to help take a bite out of crime. But that was before she met Cliff Marchelli. This surly, unshaven co...

  • Mr. Wright

    Lauryn Chandler

    Finders keepers Poor Sharlie Kincaid -- she had a case of the single's blues. But what was the remedy when a lonely, discouraged woman felt down-and-out when it came to love? Why, a manhunt, of course! And what better "fairy godfather"...

  • Inheritance

    Joleen Daniels

    Legacy of love Margret Brolin owed her life to Jude Emory -- the kindhearted stranger who rescued her when her storm-tossed car plunged into an icy creek. But when she finally arrived at her destination -- the Double Diamond Ranch -- she discovere...

  • Heiress Apparent

    Kayla Daniels

    From the moment he placed the ad to find an adventure writer's long-lost daughter, New Orleans attorney Clay Holbrooke was besieged by every kind of fortune hunter known to man. Then when stunning Mariah McKenna sailed into his office with a smil...

  • The Upstairs Lover

    Emma Darcy

    He made her an offer she couldn't refuse When Shane Courtney followed her home from Paddington Bazaar, Christine Delaney knew she'd met a man who didn't take no for an answer. He didn't have to -- he came from one of the richest, m...

  • To Hold an Eagle

    Justine Davis

    Everything had its price.... PASSIONATE PERIL Chandra Lansing was a woman with dangerous information. Of that, Naval investigative agent Linc Reese was certain -- though she couldn't hide much in the swimsuit she'd been wearing when he'd fishe...

  • Paradox

    Lynn Erickson

    TRAPPED IN TIME! Emily Jacoby --- Bright, sophisticated and independent. Used to being in control, she's a real woman of the '90s. Will Dutcher --- Arrogant, brash and domineering. On his ranch in the rugged foothills of Colorado, his word is la...

  • The Texan's Bride

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE LIVED BY HER OWN SET OF RULES.... Katie Starr knew the rugged Texan was trouble the moment he stepped into her father's inn. Overbearing, overconfident, and overwhelmingly attractive. Branch seemed to delight in sparking her anger -- and her pas...

  • This Above All

    Barbara Faith

    Fiddle-de-dee. Laurel Merritt's assignment that sultry Georgia night should have been simple for a Southern belle: sweet-talk elusive Christian Dumond into selling a tiny piece of his dusky tropical isle. Unfortunately, Christian's dark, hypnotic sen...

  • A Special Request

    Judith Duncan
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    Sarah Jeffrie's son didn't want much --- just a dog and a dad. Nat Anderson had the dog --- and he'd be a prime candidate for dadhood, except Nat was just passing through. Sarah refused to fall for a sexy smile, but Nat wasn't leaving till he fulfill...

  • Thea's Marquis

    Carola Dunn

    A FAMILY AFFAIR .. . Family meant everything to Miss Thea Kilmore, even though she never expected to have one of her own. She was happy to spend all her considerable energy seeing to the well-being of her mother, sisters and brother. Until she met...

  • Holding Out for a Hero

    Marie Ferrarella

    A SHOCKING CRIME... Single mother Jennifer Sinclair had no way of knowing she shouldn't trust the kindly nurse who took her newborn daughter away for routine tests. She had no way of knowing that her baby had just been kidnapped--that she might ne...

  • Quinn Eisley's War

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    SECRET WEAPON Quinn Eisley: Special agent, U.S. Naval Intelligence. Specialty--works alone, high-risk missions. Blue Harrell: Secret bodyguard. Specialty--invisibility. Rating--excellent, little regard for her own life. Working undercover as a ...

  • Dead Magnolias

    M.L. Gamble

    Past sins haunted the South.... In the steamy dog days of an Alabama August, P.I. Teresa Worth struggled with her cases. Her kidnapped daughter remained top priority - then came hit-and-run murders, petty thieves and men like Wells Talmadge. T...

  • Anything You Can Do

    Sara Garrett

    Checkmate Bailey Russell had heard about the hot-shot attorney before he arrived in Kansas City. Rumor had it that Austin Travers was a big gun who'd been brought into the rival firm to shake things up. But she'd never expected Austin to be drop-d...

  • Ghostwriter

    Eve Gladstone

    She was having a bad day... There was a dead body in her flower garden and the notes from the scathing expose of a murder in the Amazon she'd ghostwritten had been stolen. When she returned to the scene of the crime Kim Killian was next in line fo...

  • Quicksand

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. MAY The man: Cooper Maitland. Ex-workaholic. He wants: Rest and relaxation away from the corporate rat race... But: Sassy neighbor Priss Neilson keeps him anything but relaxed! Cooper's "all or nothing" creed had almost cost...

  • Sunshine and Shadow

    Kathleen Harrington

    SCANDALOUS LIES Colonel Roderick Fielding returns to England as a war hero with the title of earl, yet without a penny to his name. His family fortune stolen, he's prepared to wed an heiress...when one arrives conveniently on his doorstep. ...

  • He's the Rich Boy // Confessions // First Love

    Lisa Jackson

    Hardworking single mother Nadine Warne understood love and loss--she'd lost everything that youthful summer she invested her heart in a rich boy's dream . Scorning the gossip about Gold Creek girls who succumbed to handsome Hayden Garreth IV, Nad...

  • Flashback

    Terri Herrington

    Through the curtain . . . There was something haunting in the old man's eyes, something that mesmerized Sarah Rhinehart. Then, tragically, he died-before she could ask why he'd been following her, before she even knew his name. Stunned and bewilde...

  • True Colors

    Elizabeth Hewitt

  • Flyboy

    Janice Kaiser

    TICKET TO PARADISE En Route: Shelley Van Dam had her life mapped out. She had the responsibility of running the family trust and an involvement with an eminently suitable lawyer. So when she was named the executor of her late uncle Henry's estate ...

  • Take Back the Night

    Dee Holmes

    Wild in the streets. VENGEANCE IN BLUE JEANS DEA agent Cage Murdock was like a panther -- dark, sleek and ready to stalk the vermin that had gunned down his brother in a brutal drive-by shooting. Revenge was his sole reason for coming to M...

  • The Wizard of Seattle

    Kay Hooper

    HE TAUGHT HER A FORBIDDEN ART She looked like a ragged, storm-drenched urchin, but from the moment Serena Smyth appeared on his Seattle doorstep, Richard Patrick Merlin recognized the spark behind her green eyes, the wild talent barely held in che...

  • Truth or Dare

    Janis Reams Hudson

    JARED --- His devastating Smile Burned the Clothes Off Her Body . . . He'd interviewed a dozen potential assistants, but television station manager Jared Morgan was beginning to believe he'd never find the right person for the job --- until Rachel...

  • Black Jack Brogan

    Julie Kistler

    HE WAS SUCH A BAD BOY He exuded raw sensuality, burned her with his searing smile and commanded her with his piercing eyes. He was Madison Talley's darkest fantasy, the sum and substance of her most decadent dreams. And he was standing right in fr...

  • Spindrift

    Miranda Jarrett

    From the moment she found the stranger washed up on her shore, Demaris knew her life would never be the same. For though he claimed to have lost his memory, rumors of pirates in Rhode Island's waters abounded, and Demaris could not dispel her fear th...

  • Tall Order

    Linda Jenkins

    GRAY -- Bold Conqueror Who Made Her Beg to Surrender... He'd never liked flamboyant women, but when his eyes met Garnet Brindisi's, she wouldn't let go -- and he couldn't! She was spectacular, a tall siren who liked to flirt and to...

  • The Cowboy and the Princess

    Joan Johnston

    COWBOY CRAZY Faron Whitelaw had some nerve calling Belinda Prescott a princess. A nearly bankrupt ranch was hardly a castle, and Faron, an ill-tempered cowboy who'd inherited half her kingdom, was certainly no prince. The man was lucky she didn't ...

  • Flashpoint

    Leona Karr

    'Diddle Diddle dumpling, poor young John,' began the macabre Mother Goose rhyme that arrived on Gail Richard's doorstep. 'Killed in the street, his life blood gone.' A tragic accident had almost cost Gail her life - and had caused the death ...

  • Wrangler

    Dorsey Kelley

    Wild horse Walker and the widow lady Walker Marshall had a way with horses--even the wild mustangs of the California mountains. But women... Well, he'd never been able to make sense of them. The city-bred widow visiting the Bar M was no exception....

  • The Real McCoy

    Patricia Knoll

    The Bride ran away. The Groom ran after her. Their Marriage was over...or was it? Bret Calhoun and Ginny McCoy had met barely two weeks before their wedding. And Ginny had left him five months later--after realizing that neither of them was real...

  • Ironheart

    Rachel Lee

    DREAM WARRIOR... Sara Jane Yates was a black satin sheets woman hidden in the guise of a pistol-packin' peace officer. Gideon Ironheart could tell that just from the sound of her voice. No other woman had ever made him want to quit his wandering w...

  • Maybe No, Maybe Yes

    Cait London

    MELANIE'S MEDICINE Businessman Sloan Raventhrall had the flu, and his visiting niece had terrorized every baby-sitter! The drum set she'd made from his pots and pans gave him a migraine, and a nervous client was calling every minute. He had to cal...

  • The Apartment

    Debbie Macomber
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    No matter that Hilary Sullivan was twenty-four years old, played flute for the Portland Symphony and had her own apartment --- Hilary's mother was overprotective. So how was Hilary going to convince her that mother didn't know best when it came to ha...

  • A Ghostly Affair

    Charlotte Maclay

    HE HAD TO BE REAL Did ghosts have black silky hair and piercing dark eyes? Were their bodies lean and hard? Emily Morrell didn't think so. But Captain Calvert T. Witherspoon, late of His Majesty's Service, was walking through walls. Emily had ...

  • By Love Unveiled

    Deborah Martin

    A WOMAN WITH A SECRET ... A MAN OF DANGER.. Lady Marianne Winchilsea was running for her life from those who thought she was involved in an attempt to kill the king. Forced to disguise herself, she trusted no one -- especially not Garett Lyon, the...

  • The Secret Sisters

    Ann Maxwell

    THE SEARCH FOR HER SISTER COULD COST CHRISTY HER LIFE! Christy McKenna, the toughest, smartest fashion writer in New York, thought she had escaped her childhood in the impoverished rural West. Then came a call for help from the one person she coul...

  • Ties That Blind

    Leigh Michaels

    Abbey Stafford was a snob So she wasn't going to sit idly by while her mother made a fool of herself by marrying Frank Granger, the neighborhood handyman! Ironically, the only one who could help Abbey put a stop to this engagement was her ...

  • Never Say Goodbye

    Suzanne McMinn

    Felicia had achieved all of her dreams... except for one -- Brandon! Felicia Marick's greatest regret was the day Brandon asked her to marry him. Though she was just eighteen at the time, her heart, body and soul already belonged to Brandon, the blue...

  • Grady's Wedding

    Patricia McLinn

    Grady Roberts had never been the marrying kind--and he still wasn't. But after he watched his best friends walk down the aisle and start families, flipping through his little black book and take-out for one suddenly seemed boring... and lonely. Yet t...

  • Thunder and Roses

    Mary Jo Putney

    PASSION'S BARGAIN They called him the Demon Earl. They said he could do anything. Son of a rogue and a gypsy, Nicholas Davies was a notorious rake until a shattering betrayal left him alone and embittered in the Welsh countryside. Desperation ...

  • Destiny's Promise

    Laurel Pace

    Running From A Nightmare When Lucinda Chandler fled her powerful husband in an act of desperation and disguised herself as a governess, she'd never thought she'd find happiness. Still, her new life on a remote Georgia plantation seemed almost idyl...

  • Pretty Predicament

    Sara Orwig

    After Marietta Clelland foils a bank robbery and inherits a fortune from a beloved friend, she must contend with Jordan Bank, the stingy trustee who casts his handsome eyes on the willowy beauty. Original....

  • Gunman's Lady

    Catherine Palmer

    WELL-BRED In Kansas City, Rosie had wealth and culture, but she dreamed of the wild frontier--and the man she once loved... HALF-BREED Son of an Apache warrior, Bart lived on the wrong side of the law--a wanted man with a wanting heart... GUN...

  • Calamity Mom

    Diana Palmer
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    A mom for all calamities . . . that was what Faulkner Scott's young son wanted. The motherless twelve-year-old was determined to appoint Shelly Astor his new mom after she saved his life. Then she met his dad! Who was going to save Shelly's heart fro...

  • Satisfaction

    Diane Pershing

    T. R.--A Charismatic Outlaw Who Was Irresistibly Wicked... He stood dangerously, disturbingly close to her beach chair, and teased her in a low voice that promised sensual pleasures shed never tasted--but Kate O'Brien had vowed never to fall for ...

  • Shenanigans

    Casey Roberts

    THE OPPONENTS Paul Sherwood was a man with a mission: to take over ailing cosmetics giant Cheri Lee. Lauren Afton was a woman with a goal: to save her mother's self-made empire. THE CHALLENGE Paul was smooth, all right, right down to the off...

  • Somewhere Out There

    Emilie Richards

    THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Like a scorching mirage, the stranger materialized from the sandswept Australian Dryas naked and nameless as a newborn babe. But even without his memory, he was every inch a man .... A man whose missing past-and eerily hy...