Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • 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...

  • Cobra Curse

    Bill Dolan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Point Blank

    Mike Morris

    Duggan and Dye, an anti-terrorist team that steps across the law to crush criminals, go after terrorists who have stolen enough nerve gas to exterminate every living thing in a thousand-mile radius. Original....

  • 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....

  • Zero Hour

    Patrick F. Rogers

  • Another Man's Poison

    Ann Cleeves

    Ursula Ottway may have outlived her time, but she's still a tough old bird. When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, she angrily threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-p...

  • Appearance of Evil

    Carolyn Coker

    THE FINE ART OF MURDER As houseguest of one of the Huntington Museum's board members, and busy with her restoration project, art restorer Andrea Perkins is dimly aware of the discovery of a corpse on the grounds of the museum. LAPD detectives T...

  • At Dead of Night

    Linda Amey

    Moving back to her hometown of Live Oak, Texas, with her teenage daughter, funeral director Blair Emerson becomes the star witness in an arson trial while being stalked by a mysterious stranger. Original....

  • Bank on It

    Sherryl Woods

    MURDER...COMPOUNDED WITH INTEREST Amanda Roberts was ignoring the rules every woman knows. She agreed to meet a strange man at night, in a dark, creepy place--a cemetery, no less. If she hadn't been so depressed over her love life, she might not h...

  • A Cat With a Fiddle

    Lydia Adamson

    Available Digitally for the First TimeA holiday in rural Massachusetts seems like just the thing for talented actress turned cat-sitter Alice Nestleton -- until a killer strikes a sour note… Alice Nestleton has recently died… at the box office, t...

  • Diamond Deceit

    Carolyn Keene

    An urgent message from Bess draws Nancy to beautiful Carmel, California. Fading movie star Joanna Burton has accused jeweler Marcia Cheung of replacing the diamonds in her necklace with fakes. But the case of the missing stones turns even more sinist...

  • The Down Home Heifer Heist

    Eve K. Sandstrom

    THIN ICE It's a mean winter in Catlin County, Oklahoma, as modern-day rustlers are taking a deep cut out of the area's cattle production. The operation is slick...and murder is just another day's work. Rancher Joe Pilkington, neighbor to Sheriff ...

  • The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt

    Alisa Craig

    A GRAVE SITUATION Normally not one to be spooked by a specter, spunky widow Zilla Trott is nevertheless unnerved when the ghost of long-dead mule driver Hiram Jellyby appears in he kitchen -- demanding that someone disinter his murdered bones and ...

  • Liquid Desires

    Edward Sklepowich

    A shocking murder draws Urbino Macintyre into the dark side of the Venice art world Summer in Venice is brutal, and the heat is beginning to drive the people of this quiet city mad. A woman storms into the galleries at the Biennale art fair and slash...

  • Miss Seeton Plants Suspicion

    Hamilton Crane

    Seeds Of Suspicion Miss Seeton was busy tending her garden when a local youth was arrested for murder. Everyone assumed she would put her finger -- or green thumb--on the real culprit. But Miss Seeton was digging up soil, not clues. And the killer d...

  • No Way Out

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Hardys travel to Idaho to learn the wilderness sport of orienteering, but Frank, Joe, and their instructor, Rob Niles, run into some treacherous terrain, and their courage and resourcefulness are stretched to the limit. Original....

  • Old Scores

    Aaron Elkins

    "A fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of tense auctions, suspected forgeries and internecine feuds." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The art world is abuzz with news of the discovery of an unknown Rembrandt. Rene Vachey, the famed collector who mad...

  • Over the Edge // Murder on the Clifftops

    Betty Rowlands

    Successful Cotswolds thriller writer Melissa Craig, accompanies her friend Iris to the Cévennes, where Iris is running an art course and Melissa is researching the history of the Camisards for her next novel. Within a week, two bodies are found s...

  • Shadows in Their Blood

    Marian Babson

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair are starring in a new Dracula film, but when the weather turns foul during the tense shooting, Trixie and Evangeline are suspected of being real vampires and murder makes a cameo appearance...

  • Telling Lies

    Wendy Hornsby

    Exposing the truth is investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's business. She's smart, skeptical, and stubborn, with a hard-edged, wise-cracking approach to life that hides her vulnerable heart. Maggie's passion for truth is first inspired when h...

  • The Final Bow

    Alan David Justice

    The riveting story of the fourth century actor whose stunning conversion transformed him from an on-stage mocker of the Christians to one of the faith's great saints. An exciting epic that will appeal to lovers of such fictional masterworks as Ben Hu...

  • The Price of Love

    Christine S. Drake

    Jessy Flint, an orphaned 14-year-old girl living on a farm in the Midwest in the early 1900s, is reunited with her brother and must deal with his coldness as well as that of the barren prairie. Can Jessy's love and loyalty transform her brother's hea...

  • 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....

  • The Shining Face

    Harold Myra

  • Trying to Get Toothpaste Back into the Tube

    Lorraine Peterson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Are We in Love?

    Francine Pascal

    Love or friendship? Annie Whitman's new stepsister, Cheryl, is finally having fun in Sweet Valley, thanks to the friendship of her neighbor Steven Wakefield. Soon everyone--even Steven's twin sisters, Jessica and Elizabeth--assumes that Steven and...

  • Bad Attitude

    Tiffany White

    EVERY WOMAN WANTS AN OUTLAW And every woman in the world seemed to want Mitch Marlow, Hollywood's hottest hell-raiser. His bad-boy looks--complete with matching attitude--had made him a highly bankable movie star. But lately his reckless life-sty...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Can't Buy Me Love

    Joan Smith

    Just in thyme... Real estate developer Wilf Jameson had found the perfect location for his country club. All he had to do to close the deal was buy the farmland that sat smack in the middle of his future golf course. His partner claimed the owner ...

  • The Countess and the Cowboy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    COWBOYS AND INDIANS NEVER FOUGHT LIKE THIS When Letitia DeMarco won the deed to her ex's Montana ranch, she didn't know it came with a negative cash flow--and Tyler Barnes, a foreman with a state-size chip on his shoulder. Before she could even un...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Dreaming

    Charlotte Lamb

    Date with an angel Luisa was drawn to Zachary West. It was more than a nurse's compassion for her patient that moved her, it was the man himself: temperamental, courageous and so very desirable. When she discovered it was her father's car ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Forever Night

    Myrna Temte

    All right, he'd made a mistake. A big mistake. In a bout of bone-deep loneliness, he, straitlaced sheriff Andy Johnson, had cut loose in a night of carnal bliss with spitfire Ginny Bradford. But did that mean he'd never live it down? Looked that ...

  • Forgive and Forget

    Elizabeth Barnes

    His fire, her ice... Kathy couldn't fight it -- the chemistry had been there between them since their first meeting when she'd been seventeen and desperate to escape her lonely life. Reid had been her salvation...but ultimately he'd br...

  • Freshman Passion

    Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie blames Josh for the motorcycle crash that has changed their lives forever. Can their love survive the pain and guilt? Brooks is finding Angela hard to hold--and the more she eludes him, the more determined Brooks is to have her! Will bro...

  • 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...

  • Hannah's Hero

    Denise Richards

    Someone to Watch Over Hannah Hannah usually loved the solitude of mornings on the New Mexico farm. The daily rituals of scattering chicken feed, collecting eggs and running the dog were a source of comfort, a way to -recover from the tragic event ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hero on the Loose

    Rebecca Winters

    She'd helped to convict him -- but was he innocent? Andrea Meyers was on the jury that convicted prominent New Mexico stockbroker Lucas Hastings of defrauding his clients. She was never comfortable with the verdict, though; the case against hi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Just a Memory Away

    Moyra Tarling

    When the past lies in shadow... Alison Montgomery awakened alone in a hospital room, unable to remember her own name. The doctors were kind and comforting, but their worried glances, and their hushed whispers outside her door, spoke of dark secret...

  • Lawful Possession

    Catherine George

    Just how far would he go to gain possession? Flora Blair had every intention of vacating her great-aunt's cottage in the Scottish Highlands, until James Cameron chose to act the arrogant landlord. Well, she would just let him dangle for a whil...

  • Lessons in Love

    Betty Headapohl

    Though Skye McDaniels is attracted to Clayton Bonds, she keeps her distance. Clay is friendly and handsome, but Skye is afraid he'll never be accepted by the in crowd at Emerson High. Skye thinks his clothes are all wrong, his car is uncool, and to m...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love of My Heart

    Emma Richmond

    When Irish eyes are smiling...there's trouble in store! Ellie was struck by the warmth and kindness of the Irish; ever since she'd arrived in their country, they'd been only too willing to welcome her, and it seemed that Feargal McMaho...

  • 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....

  • Love's Dark Shadow

    Grace Green

    "Marry in red, you're better off dead." Was that how she was going to feel, married to Dominic? Angela had adored Dominic five years before. But she had obviously been wrong in succumbing to his kisses after only a few weeks because he...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mirrors of the Sea

    Sally Wentworth

    Changing course... Alys had run away, raw and devastated, from Titus Irvine and the love that had fallen victim to stubborn, uncompromising anger. Time had done little to heal the wounds. Now, the cruise ship they were coincidentally both aboar...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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"...

  • 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...

  • Nightfall

    Katharine Marlowe

    High school teacher Rebecca Leighton narrowly misses hitting a student seeking assistance when his friend's car breaks down very late one rainy night. Soon after starts a series of escalating acts of vandalism and harassment. Life turns ugly and inco...

  • Perfect

    Judith McNaught

    From bestselling, beloved author Judith McNaught comes the dramatic story of a woman who, out of childhood chaos, has created the perfect life...a man convicted of a heinous crime, who stubbornly protests his innocence...their journey together into l...

  • A Place of Stones

    Deirdre Purcell

    Seeking her fame and fortune in Dublin, small-town Irish woman Molly O'Brien finds herself torn between the love of the American who breaks down her defenses and the Irishman whom it is a sin to desire. Original....

  • Pleasure in the Sand

    Adrienne Staff

    ERIC--A Tormented Hero Who Made Her Dream of Happily Ever After... He lifted her from the waves and comforted the lovely stranger with his gentle touch and a voice she believed was only a dream, but Jody Conners was shocked to discover she'd been...

  • 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....

  • Prim and Improper

    Rachel Vincer

    Love and War The last person Julia wanted to see at the story conference was Martin Taylor. Since he'd joined the staff of Canadian Horizons, he had swiped every important article that came along. His English accent and worldly manner had bowled o...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Regret Not a Moment

    Nicole McGehee

    Devon Richmond's main passion is breeding and training thoroughbred horses, until the raven-haired beauty meets and marries John Alexander, but tragedy soon strikes, and Devon spends the next years of her life battling misfortune...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Storm of Passion

    Jenny Cartwright

    Restless... Eleanor had gone to Wales to figure out what to do with her life. She could work at her safe, stable job and marry a safe, stable man -- everyone else's favorite choice -- or she could pursue a career that allowed her to travel and...

  • 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...

  • Strong Arms of the Law

    Dallas Schulze

    THE HOSTAGE AND HER "HUSBAND" When Kate Sloane agreed to testify as a witness for the state, she had no idea she'd become a voluntary hostage-to a sexy stranger who was armed and dangerous. Drew Hunter had ice-blue eyes, a police detective's ba...

  • Summer Token

    Joan Reddin

    SEASON OF LOVE Amelia Randall's position as a night nurse at a pediatric hospital in rural Arkansas is the perfect job for a woman who has spent her life hiding from the world. But she can't hide forever. Her best friend knows that. So does the m...

  • Swept Away

    Linda Warren

    JAKE--A Blue-Eyed Scoundrel Whose Grin Promised Delicious Seduction... He'd never intended to return to the family whale-watching business, but Jake Marlow suspected sabotage--and he had to consider every possible suspect, including Maria Santos,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • This I Ask of You

    Pat Warren

    Dark family secrets, half-remembered whispers from the past, sent Nikki Spencer running from her home, from everything she knew and loved. Her desperate flight brought her at last, hurt, exhausted and heartsick, to an isolated cabin high in the red-r...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Trail of Love

    Amanda Browning

    "You're in trouble with a capital T!" Kay Napier was a happy, intelligent young woman who had been brought up in a loving home. But then lightning struck.... The first bolt came in the disturbingly attractive shape of Ben Radford. The second...

  • 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...

  • Until Tomorrow

    Sandra Steffen

    The Truth About Conor Bekka Stevenson had wanted to know the truth about Conor since they were both kids. Always considered a bad boy around town, Conor Bradley had seemed exciting and dangerous. No one knew who started the blaze that burned his h...

  • 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...

  • The Virgin & the Unicorn

    Kelly Street

    Live the Fantasy Our deepest and dearest romantic fantasies are rooted in fairy tales, myths and legends. 1n these beloved stories of destined love, of true love conquering all, we recapture the magic of romance. Once upon a time, a virginal pr...

  • Voice in the Dark

    Judy Whitten

  • Wakefield Hall

    Francesca Stanfill

    Summoned to the elegant Berkshire mansion known as Wakefield Hall to write the biography of recently deceased actress Joanna Eakins, reporter Elisabeth Rowan is unprepared for the passion, malevolence, and misdirection she encounters. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Wilder's Wilderness

    Miriam MacGregor

    The things one does for love... First, Lucy agrees to act on her favorite aunt's behalf. She travels into the New Zealand wilderness to persuade Silas Wilder, her aunt's stepson, to kiss and make up--to renew his family ties. Lucy even tri...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Yesterday's Dreams

    Margaret Mayo

    Could yesterday's dreams become today's happy ending? Businessman Drake Rivelin was still Sapphire's husband. But their marriage was long since over, killed by Drake's driving ambition and lack of consideration. Their parting had b...

  • Dune to Death

    Mary Daheim

    LIFE'S A BEACH...AND THEN YOU DIE! Bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle and her policeman beau Joe Flynn have finally gotten hitched--and they're off on a sunny honeymoon to beautiful Buccaneer Beach. But an unfortunate confrontation with a ...

  • Never Send Flowers

    John E. Gardner

    In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Books of the Keepers

    Ann Downer

    In the conclusion to the trilogy that began with Spellkey and The Glass Salamander, Caitlin the Seer, Badger, and their children live peacefully in their world after rescuing son Bram from the elvish underworld....

  • Breath on the Mirror

    Dennis Tedlock

  • The Broken Sphere

    Nigel Findley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The CRYSTAL DROP

    Bettany Hughes

    This accessible and engaging history traces the practice of Christian devotion, prayer, and contemplation from the biblical and influential early periods through the diverse insights of the Reformation and modern eras....

  • Dead Water Zone

    Kenneth Oppel

    For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam...

  • Death in Delhi

    Gary Gygax

    THE PERILS OF THE EAST The Pharaoh's most resourceful Magister, Setne Inhetep, would be the first to admit he had weaknesses-such as his attachment to his beautiful companion, the Amazon warrior Rachelle...and the challenge of a seemingly unsolvab...

  • Ecstasia

    Francesca Lia Block

    Calliope and Rafe, sister and brother, were born of a woman of the Desert and a man who made magic with his mind, who could fight off illness and age with his potions. But now the children have grown and their parents are gone. Now Calliope and Rafe,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Glory

    Alfred Coppel

    The Goldenwing spaceship Gloria Coelis approaches the colony planet Voerster with an essential supply shipment ordered centuries before. Settled by South Africans determined to preserve apartheid, Voerster is now threatened by revolution and war... w...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Rainbow Man

    M.J. Engh

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Stopping for a Spell

    Diana Wynne Jones

    In three wild and wacky tales, find out what can happen when......An old armchair that you've finally decided to get rid of comes to life -- and has a definite attitude. It thinks it can rule the entire household!...Not one, but four grannies come to...

  • Terry Jones' Fantastic Stories

    Terry Jones

  • 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...

  • Timelike Infinity

    Stephen Baxter

    WAR BETWEEN THE AGES Once mankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Now it is oppressed by the Qax--until the loose end of a time tunnel, long since set adrift, whips back through the solar system. In one desperate leap, a band of rebel...

  • 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...

  • Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

  • Wild Magic

    Angus Wells

    When the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two lesser gods, Tharn and Balatur, to walk upon the new world. But greed and power twisted their minds and turned their ambition into madness. And so the First Gods condemned them to eternal...

  • 1st Culprit

    Liza Cody

    'Ruth Rendell, with a new Wexford story, and Dick Francis, with a cunning racetrack heist, lead the field in this superb new collection from the Crime Writer's Association. International stars, old favorites, and new talents combine in a collection t...

  • The Afterlife of George Cartwright

    John Steffler

    For George Cartwright - soldier, explorer, naturalist, entrepreneur, gentleman, adventurer - time stopped on May 19, 1819, the day of his death. In the 170 years since, his spirit has wandered the byways of his youth, his mind returning always to the...

  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Alex Haley's Queen

    Alex Haley

  • Alice in April

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    In Alice in April, Aunt Sally reminds Alice that she will be turning thirteen soon (like anyone could forget such a momentous occasion) and that she will be the “woman of the house.” Alice dives into her new role by planning her father’s fiftie...

  • All Summer Long

    Bob Greene

    1993 St. Martin's Griffin trade paperback, 2nd printing. Bob Greene (Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen). At their 25th high school reunion, three old friends come up with the idea to hit the road for one more mellow, footloose...

  • The Alley Cat

    Brian J. Heinz

  • The Animals' Lullaby

    Tom Paxton

  • 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."...

  • Arctic Spring

    Sue Vyner

    As winter ends, arctic animals emerge from their lairs, the seal surfaces from under the ice, and the polar bear guards her cubs, in an illustrated evocation of the excitement of spring in the far North....

  • Atlantic Run

    Bart Davis

    Navy Captain Peter MacKenzie must stop a renegade Russian captain from running the Northern Star, once the pride of the Soviet Union’s now extinct submarine fleet, to Cuba....

  • 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....

  • Bee's Sneeze

    Ellis Nadler

  • Belinda

    Pamela Allen

  • 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 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 ...

  • The Big Green Pocketbook

    Candice Ransom

    On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook--just like her mother's--and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. Color illustrations. Trophy edit...

  • Big Pig's Hat

    Willy Smax

  • Biomarkers

    William Evans

  • Bishop's Revenge

    William F. Love

  • Blind Hunger

    David Drake

    Patty Hunsacker, a recently widowed blind woman, welcomes a stranger into her home who claims to be her husband's twin brother but is, in fact, her husband returned from the dead as a vampire. By the author of Brain Fever. Original....

  • Blood Music

    Jessie Prichard Hunter

    New York City is caught in the cold grip of a brutal serial killer who savagely rapes and murders his young, blonde victims. As the death count rises, he sends taunting notes to the newspapers, all with unsettling references to his obsession with cla...

  • Blossom's Family Album

    Devra Newberger Speregen

  • Blue Moon Soup Spoon

    Mimi Otey-Little

    An authentic blue moon, something rare and magical that can bring people together, makes stale food taste fresh and teaches a make-a-wish tune. By the author of Daddy Has a Pair of Striped Shorts. ...

  • Bouncing

    Shirley Hughes

  • Boy and the Giants

    Fiona Moodie

    In a folktale from the Hebrides, when his friend Kate is kidnapped by a terrible giant, Thomas, a brave fisherboy, comes to her rescue, and because of the good deeds that he has done in the past, friends are eager to help Thomas....

  • The Broken Circle

    Rodney Barker

    "As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman."
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
    In Farmington, New Mexico, a town that borders a Navajo reservation, the tensions between white...

  • The Cabbage Patch Kids Visit the Doctor

    M.J. Carr

    It shows that going to the doctor is always okay and should not be a scary experience. Kids should be exposed to a book like this because going to the doctor is always a scary experience it seems for kids and this book really helped even me as a chil...

  • Calder's Circus

    Maira Kalman

  • Caleb's Friend

    Eric Jon Nones

    When Caleb's harmonica falls out of his hands, a young boy from the sea rescues it, and the two became fast friends, a strong friendship in which each saves the other's life. By the author of The Canary Prince. ...

  • Camp Big Paw

    Doug Cushman

  • Can You Guess?

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • The Case of the Hidden Treasure

    Francine Pascal

  • Chatterbox Jamie

    Nancy Evans Cooney

  • Chloe in the Know

    Judith Caseley

    In the third volume in the Kane family chronicles, Chloe, the eldest child, finds herself helping her brother, Harry, when he is unjustly accused of lying. By the author of Starring Dorothy Kane. ...

  • Circus Girl

    Michael Garland

    Vivid illustrations and a straightforward text capture the unique world of a traveling circus family, from the parade through town, to the rehearsals, to the big show itself, with its clowns, acrobats, animals, and more....

  • Closet Case

    Robert Rodi

    As he tries to conceal his homosexuality from his co-workers, Lionel Frank runs into some snags, including a crush on a straight Transylvanian anarchist medical student. By the author of Fag Hag. ...

  • Come and Play, Hippo

    Mike Thaler

  • Come Here, Cat

    Joan L. Nodset

  • Come to Me

    Amy Bloom

    National Book Award FinalistBloom writes about passion—shameful, blissful and perverse. . . . Her voice is sure and brisk, her language often beautiful; the result is humorous and well as heartrending fiction. . . . Her work has the power both ...

  • The Cow Buzzed

    Andrea Griffing Zimmerman

  • Creatures Of Habit

    Julie Baumgold

    In the twilight of glittering, shameless New York, the most famous chronicler of eighties society was columnist Libby Alexander -- a.k.a. The Pimpernel. She was the all-perceiving eye among the citizens of a gilded arena. Now New York is in the grip ...

  • Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his thre...

  • Crow and Weasel

    Barry Lopez

    When two young men leave their tribal village and set out to go farther north than any other of their people, they meet with terrifying danger and spectacular beauty. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo....

  • Daddies Boat

    Lucia Monfried

  • Damaged Goods

    John Leslie

    Ex-football player and ex-cop Harry Molina is paid to keep people safe, and in sunny Miami, where Uzis are as common as retirees, a lot of people need his help. His friend Bryce, a financier with bad debts, has disappeared. Bryce's ex-wife is in dang...

  • Danilo the Fruit Man

    E.G. Valens

  • Deception

    Eleanor Cooney

    A Confucian investigator and dedicated judge puts his own life in jeopardy by exposing the bloody machinations of the emperor's concubine, who is murdering her way to the top of seventh-century China's T'ang dynasty. Reprint....

  • Dollhouse

    Jacqueline Karas

  • Dolphin Sunrise

    Elizabeth Webster

  • 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....

  • The Dork of Cork

    Chet Raymo

    When Frank, an Irish dwarf, writes a personal memoir, he moves from dark isolation into the public eye. This luminous journey is marked by memories of his lonely childhood, secrets of his doomed young mother, and his passion for a woman who is as unr...

  • Double Vision

    Diana Hendry

  • Dusty Brannigan

    Janice Harrell

  • E I E I O: The Story of Old MacDonald, Who Had a Farm

    Gus Clark

  • Eclipse Fever

    Walter Abish

    While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer...

  • Ekaterina

    Donald Harington

    A ghost tells the story of Ekaterina, an immigrant novelist who has a yen for pubescent lovers, and, based on the success of one of her novels, takes over the top floor of the Halfmoon Hotel in Aracata Springs...

  • Elephant Moon

    Bijou Le Tord

    Claude Monet's world is brilliantly displayed in an enchanting tribute to the artist and his works with the same palette of eight colors and similar style, along with poetic text to lovingly portray his life....

  • Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent

    Duncan Ball

  • Field Day

    Nick Butterworth

  • The Fifth Sacred Thing

    Starhawk

    An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.Declaration of the Four Sacr...

  • The First Song Ever Sung

    Laura Krauss Melmed