Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • The Last Command

    Timothy Zahn

    The conclusion to the epic adventure begun in the number one New York Times bestselling Heir to the.Empire and continued in Dark Force Rising, this final volume spans a galaxy in flames, as the Empire threatens to engulf the New Republic and its brav...

  • Prophets of the Dark Side

    Paul Davids; Hollace Davids

    A Jedi Prince. A devastating betrayal. And the destruction of the Lost City? The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But by rescui...

  • The Romulan Prize

    Simon Hawke

    Hermeticus 2--a planet so shrouded in secrecy that few in the Federation even know of its existence. When a Romulan spy learns of the world, it becomes the centerpiece of a far-reaching Romulan plan. On routine patrol near the border of the Neutra...

  • The Siege

    Peter David

    Deep Space NineTM is forced to curtail entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emissions, and an air of biting tension settles over the station. This anxiety leads to the murder of an Edeman religious leader, Commander Benjamin Sisko and Secu...

  • 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...

  • Beachhead

    Jack Williamson

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Hard Sell

    Piers Anthony

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Miracleman Book Four: The Golden Age

    Neil Gaiman

  • Spider-Man: Origin of Hobgoblin

    Roger Stern

  • Tower of the Gods

    Thomas A. Easton

  • 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...

  • X-Men VS. the Avengers

    Chris Claremont

  • At Sea

    Toby Olson

  • Bagels for Tea

    Serita Stevens

  • Bodies Electric

    Colin Harrison

    On the 39th floor of a glass and steel monolith, Jack Whitman single-mindedly plays the Corporation's game of ruthless politics and secret manipulations hoping to numb the pain of a life shattered by a random moment of urban violence ... and the loss...

  • The Case of the Choosey Cheater

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Giggling Ghost

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Mixed-Up Monsters

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Pampered Poodle

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • Crossing by Night

    David Aaron

    As Europe heads irrevocably toward World War II, Elizabeth Pack, a beautiful woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a stodgy British diplomat, is willing to do anything to stop the onslaught of the Nazi war machine. Reprint....

  • Death of a Fantasy Life

    T.G. Gilpin

    While searching for his runaway nephew in London's Soho district, university professor Anthony Ponton finds himself in the middle of the mystery concerning a stripper's murder, and he and his newfound stripper friend, Sylvia, decide to investigate...

  • End of the Empire

    Denise Ohio

  • A Fool's Death

    Patrick Cody

    Key West, a tropical paradise brimming with criminals and misfits - nearly all of whom have something to hide - is the steamy setting for A Fool's Death, the sensational debut mystery featuring Mason Collins, a tough-guy private eye and undercover so...

  • Goering's List

    J.C. Pollock

    Almost fifty years after World War II, the art collectors who own the spoils of Nazi plunder are targeted by a ruthless international terrorist, and CIA counterterrorist Micke Semko begins a deadly game of cat and mouse. Reprint....

  • Hidden Charges

    Ridley Pearson

    New York Times-bestselling author: This thriller about a suburban mall taken hostage by a madman offers “sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement” (Wilmington News-Journal).   The setting is The Yankee Green -- an enormous shopping center and ent...

  • I'll Be Seeing You

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Covering the story of a stabbing victim, television news reporter Meghan Collins stares down at the sheet-wrapped body of a beautiful young woman in a New York City hospital. What she sees in the dead girl's face draws her into a terrifying web of tr...

  • In a Country of Mothers

    A.M. Homes

    No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient -- unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationships ...

  • Kill the Boss Good-By

    Peter Rabe

    Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At...

  • Mantis

    Richard La Plante

    Cult leader Justin Gabriel has been in prison for ten years, convicted of ordering his followers to kill. He has been a model prisoner, intent always on winning parole-- and resuming the work the police interrupted. Soon he will have his one and only...

  • Margin for Murder

    Bronte Adams

  • The Name of the Game Is Death

    Dan J. Marlowe

    "Two guys with guts and a go-to-hell-with-you-Jack regard for consequences have about three chances in ten of pulling off a big, well-planned smash-and-grab.  If one of them can shoot like me . . . the odds are a damn sight better."

    In the c...

  • Night Shift

    Margot J. Fromer

  • Paradise

    Marc Savage

    When her gambling beau, Misty, sets off across country with a bundle of stolen cash, Molly agrees to give her ex-beau, private eye Izzy Stein, a second chance if he will go easy on Misty. AB. PW. LJ. ...

  • The Rage of Innocence

    William D. Pease

    The murder of the wife of a wealthy real-estate developer leads police detective Christine Boland on an investigation that leads into the center of national politics and reveals long-hidden secrets about a fifty-year-old crime. Reprint....

  • Save Me, Joe Louis

    Madison Smartt Bell

    One fateful decision pushes a soldier from a life of stifling order to a life of freedom as doomed as it is thrillingMacrae, a nice kid from a small town in Tennessee, joins the army only because the boys he grew up with enlisted before him. But when...

  • The Scorpio Illusion

    Robert Ludlum

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.” -- Chicago Sun-Times   Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer -- one of the best -- until the rain-swept night in Amst...

  • The Shark-Infested Custard

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private s...

  • Someone Was Watching

    David Patneaude

    1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana)1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up1996 Sunshine Stat...

  • Take-Out City

    Cynthia Lawrence

  • Tangled Webb

    Eloise McGraw

    Twelve-year-old Juniper Webb and her best friend Alison find themselves enmeshed in a tangled web when the two girls begin to investigate Juniper's new stepmother's in this middle grade novel from the author of The Seventeenth Swap....

  • The Ten Thousand

    Harold Coyle

  • Thicker Than Water

    Penelope Farmer

    When her cousin Will comes to live with her family after his mother's death, Becky, who lives in an English mining town, finds herself caught up in a haunting mystery that involves ghostly weeping and an old mining tragedy....

  • Web of Murder

    Harry Whittington

  • Whatever Happened to Janie?

    Caroline B. Cooney

    How could it possibly be true? But it is true. As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-- it was she.... With the mystery of her kidnapping no...

  • Winter Palace

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    What price must be paid in the struggle for power, for wealth, for souls, in the fragmented new Russia? Jeffrey Sinclair could scarcely believe his good fortune. Two years in London had won him success in the international antiques trade, a new unde...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Pamela Simpson

    A TERRIFYING IMAGE They are only fragments of a memory, flickering shards of shadow and fear, but they fill Alexandra Wyatt with indescribable dread. For somewhere in the deepest corners of her mind, the child in her remembers ... murder. A SUR...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Triplecross

    Linda Stevens

    Three strikes and you're out... Sam Spade never saw a pair like this.... Lizzy Green's charity case of the month was playing detective for a sweet little old lady who'd misplaced an heirloom. But suddenly the rules of Lizzy's li...

  • 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...

  • Becca's Independence

    Judith Stafford

    HAD SHE WON HER FREEDOM ONLY TO LOSE HER HEART? A TANGLED WEB INDEED .. . Lady Rebecca Jane Alexandra Dunlevy had no qualms about becoming plain Rebecca Dunn if it meant escaping from a distasteful marriage. Using a distant family connection, s...

  • 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...

  • The Imposter

    June Drummond

    Accepting a bet that he cannot endure a full week's work, idle Lord Hector Finch Wycombe takes a job as tutor to Admiral Carey's family and finds several complications--including the admiral's enticing niece. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • True Colors

    Elizabeth Hewitt

  • The Wedding Deception

    Sheila Rabe

    A FAIRY TALE... Innocent young Celeste Hart had always been dearly loved--and properly spoiled. When her father lost the family fortune, her storybook life was in jeopardy. In a desperate attempt to help her family, Celeste promised herself to ...

  • Sunset after Hours

    Cherie Bennett

    Rediscover Sunset Island in Sunset After Hours, the riveting third book in Sunset After Dark -- the new series about Darcy Laken. She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with an eye for what others can't see. I've always had a little ESP, a...

  • Sunset Surf

    Cherie Bennett

    We're all having a great weekend in San Francisco! Sam's birth mother sent her a plane ticket, Carrie's on another photo stint, and Emma, of course, can afford to go anywhere she wants. So here we are. One problem, though -- it seems that Emma is fa...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Jennifer Baker

  • 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 Assassin

    W.E.B. Griffin

    A political assassin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop-and the ...

  • Bottom Liner Blues

    K.C. Constantine

    BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN With its shut-down mines and restive white-ethnic, blue-collar inhabitants, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of hard times. And no one has it tougher than its own police chief, Mario Balzic--working hours longer...

  • Detective First Grade

    Dan Mahoney

    There's a secret war on the streets of the city. Only a New York cop can win it.His claim to fame is finding guns on the bad guys, and Detective Second Grade Brian McKenna has just spotted the beard carrying a piece. What he doesn't know is that he's...

  • Murder Superior

    Jane Haddam

    A HOLY ORDER OF MURDER The Order of the Sisters of Divine Grace is holding a convention on the Philadelphia campus of St. Elizabeth's College--and the list of invitees is studded with unlikely Main Line luminaries like charmless corporation king Hen...

  • Echoes and Illusions

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    OUT OF THE PAST Lauren Ryder is content with her quiet life in a small, scenic town in Maine. She has it all--a thriving needlecraft business and a wonderful husband. But then the dreams start--dreams so real she fears she's losing her mind. Somethi...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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...

  • Actor

    Parnell Hall

    Stanley Hastings never gave up his day job. Being private eye for an ambulance-chasing New Yor lawyer specializing in accident claims has become hi career. He carries a .35 (millimeter camera to photograph cracks in the sidewalk) instead of a .38. He...

  • Bed Bugs

    Taylor McCafferty

    Three separate clients tell private eye Haskell Blevins that their houses have been ransacked but nothing has been stolen, but two clients suddenly call him off the case and the third is murdered. By the author of Pet Peeves. Original....

  • Dreamsicle // Hail Storme

    W.L. Ripley

    While on a hunting vacation in the Ozarks, former NFL star Wyatt Storme stumbles upon an underworld drug ring with plans to create a highly addictive drug called "dreamsicle," and he reluctantly assumes the role of detective...

  • Free Fall

    Robert Crais

    Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble--the kind o...

  • Hard Look

    Robert J. Randisi

    There's a song extolling the pleasures of autumn in New York, but for Miles Jacoby, a private investigator who spends too much of his time on the Big Apple's streets, the opportunity to go to Florida in October has certain charms. Not the least of th...

  • An Incident at Bloodtide

    George C. Chesbro

    The Hudson River shone like silver during their evening sail. Unfortunately, when Mongo and his brother Garth step ashore, a self-styled sorcerer named Sacra Silver is also around. An old boyfriend of Garth's wife, Mary, he is soon tossed out of the ...

  • 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...

  • Lullaby Town

    Robert Crais

    Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb th...

  • Paper Doll

    Robert B. Parker

    She was a model wife and mother, bludgeoned with a hammer on the streets of Beacon Hill. Spenser's searching for a motive and a murderer--and finding more secrets than meet the eye......

  • The Silver Scalpel

    Nancy Baker Jacobs

    In her latest case, Twin Cities P.I. Devon McDonald investigates the disappearance of pregnant teenagers from a small fundamentalist town and the possible link to an anti-abortion group. By the author of A Slash of Scarlet. ...

  • Snapshot

    Linda Barnes

    Every Friday a child's snapshot arrives at the Boston office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle. There's no note. No return address. Just pictures of the child as a newborn, as a toddler, as a preschooler. Maybe Carlotta should have tossed them all in the tras...

  • You Can Die Trying

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    Eight months after racist cop Jack McGovern guns down 12-year-old liquor-store thief Lendell Washington and insists--despite the evidence--that the kid fired on him first, McGovern's remorseful suicide flushes out Mitchell Flowers, a cowed, guilty wi...

  • Black Out

    Jack Gregory

    New York City detectives Ceretta and Logan investigate the death of a homeless woman, only to discover that she was once a wealthy socialite and that her knowledge of the city's elite may have led to her murder...

  • Roots of Evil

    Kay Mitchell

    Chief Inspector John Morrissey begins probing the death of a town's chief planning officer, whose car plunged off a bridge. Though the death was ruled an accident, Morrissey uncovers a dark side of the village where the event happened - and a killer ...

  • A Safe Place to Die

    Janice Law

    For the rich and security conscious, Branch Hill offers the posh Estates - an exclusive community of impressive homes and a state-of-the-art security system. Anna Peters and her artist husband arrive there for his gallery exhibit - but murder steals ...

  • 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...

  • Shadow Play

    Frances Fyfield

    Crown Prosecutor Helen West is doubly frustrated. Her lover, Geoffrey Bailey, is off to a police education course, with weekend visits only a slight possibility. And she has just failed for the fifth time to convict a menacing little man called Logo....

  • The Shaman's Knife

    Scott Young

    RCMP inspector Matteesie Kitologitak, the “great brain of Arctic crime,” is drawn into the case surrounding a grisly double murder when the only witness to the crime is revealed to be his mother. With the help of a shaman and his own Inuit backgr...

  • The Sheriff and the Pheasant Hunt Murders

    D.R. Meredith

    When the most loathed man in Crawford County -- ruthless banker Rich Hansford -- is killed on the first day of the annual Panhandle Pheasant Hunt, the consensus is that whoever fired the shot deserves an award. But Sheriff Charles Matthews is determi...

  • Yakuza, Go Home!

    Anne Wingate

  • The Fire Bug Connection

    Jean Craighead George

    Mutant Bug! "When a raven, flies at you, there will, be a murder." That's what Maggie's grandmother once told her, and the longer twelve-year-old Maggie stays with her parents at the Biological Research Station--or Bug Camp, as she calls it--the mor...

  • A Pound of Flesh

    Trevor Barnes

  • Selena

    Gordon Randolph Willey

    Retired archaeology professor Colin Edwards returns to the small town on Florida's Gulf Coast at the request of his cousin Charles, who believes there's a killer among the trustees of his family's estate. Charles's fears are realized when one of the ...

  • A Wide and Capable Revenge

    Thomas McCall

    Disabled policewoman Nora Callum investigates the shooting of a seemingly innocent mother of three in a cathedral and uncovers a trail of mystery that leads from present-day Chicago back to World War II-era Russia....

  • Deadly Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Ben Kincaid is not a superstar attorney. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, there are only a few lawyers who win headlines and big bucks. So when the notorious Apollo Consortium offers Ben a job as their in-house counsel, he takes it--for the money. The violence...

  • A Question of Proof

    Joseph Amiel

    Amiel's courtroom drama features a Jewish lawyer in Philadelphia. Dan Lazar defends low-life clients with high-profile cases, and he's having a tough week. Peter Boelter, owner and publisher of the Philadelphia Herald, prints inside info on Dan's pim...

  • Afghan Tales

    Oleg Yermakov

    A collection of short stories probes the legacy of Russia's involvement in Afghanistan, examining the lives of a schoolmistress in a rural hamlet, a young man awaiting conscription, and a wounded veteran trying to rebuild his career. 10,000 first pri...

  • With Downcast Eyes

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    A young Moroccan girl in Paris confronts the sophistication of an unfamiliar country and the weight of a prophecy stating that she will one day discover a treasure that will save her Berber community. By the author of Sacred Night. ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Angel of the Lake

    Ana Seymour

    LOST AT SEA Josh Lyman was lucky to have survived the wreck of the S.S. Atlantic. His fragile young wife had perished instantly, but his rescue of a Norwegian emigrant girl had been proclaimed a miracle --- a miracle that plagued him with guilt ever...

  • Arizona Embrace

    Leigh Greenwood

    HE SWORE TO HUNT HER DOWN To bounty hunter Trinity Smith, tracking down criminals wasn't just a living -- it was his life's work. And this time out, he was bringing in the most daring desperado of them all: Victoria Davidge, the gold-digging...

  • Bargain Bride

    Stella Cameron
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    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....

  • 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 ...

  • Bride of the Wildcat Purchase

    Judith E. French
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    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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Contessa

    Barrie King

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • High Sheriff of Huntingdon

    Anne Stuart
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    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....

  • The Horsemasters

    Joan Wolf

    In the lush green valleys of southern France, long before the mists of time, as humankind takes its first defiant steps to tame the earth, one special tribe among the Kindred is ruled by the Priestess Arika. But a feared change is coming, for the dis...

  • 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 --...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Painted Lady

    Lucia Grahame

    A DESPERATE BEAUTY TRAPPED BY FATE Sadness shadowed Fleur Brook's lovely, famous face. Because of her young husband's success as a painter, all of Paris and London's beau monde recognized the proud, dark-haired woman who had not only been his wife b...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Prairie Ecstasy

    Elizabeth Leigh

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  • Renegade

    Patricia Potter

    AN EXQUISITE CREATURE OF LIGHT Prisoner Rhys Redding never wondered why an angel with gleaming ebony hair and startling violet eyes would appear in the hellish Confederate jail. All he cared about was that she was his only hope of escaping Richmond ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Store-Bought Woman

    Linda Lael Miller
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    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....

  • 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. ...

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Where Shadows Go

    Eugenia Price

    After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John Fraser agrees to his wife Anne's fondest wish: that they return from London to Cannon's Point, her family's lush plantation on St. Simons Island, Georgia. There, as John struggles to master the...

  • 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...

  • Wild Wanton Love

    Ashley Snow

    His touch aroused her most shameless desires! BOLD SEDUCTRESS Orphaned Maud Mellingham knew there had to be more to life than being a servant at a country estate. So when a troupe of traveling players passed through Thornhill, the lowborn Engli...

  • Cradlesong

    Jessica Palmer

  • The Dead Game

    A. Bates

  • Defenseless

    Nancy Knight

    Attorney Savannah Manning's blissful retreat from the bustle of her life is shattered when a shocking crime in a nearby town draws her into a murder case, with her defending a very unpopular client. A first novel. Original....

  • The Eternal Enemy

    Christopher Pike

    A VCR that could tape tommorrow's news. Rela has just bought herself a new VCR. She sets the machine to tape a movie she plans to show at a party she is throwing. But instead of the movie she gets the news -- tomorrow's news. Soon Rela is regularly...

  • Final Frenzy

    Barbara Siegel

    Before he can leave Ghostworld and return to the living world, sixteen-year-old Andy Moser, accompanied by his ghost friend, Elizabeth, must locate the ghost who has stolen the secret of death from the Grim Reaper...

  • The Girl Who Cried Monster

    R.L. Stine

    SHE’S TELLING THE TRUTH...BUT NO ONE BELIEVES HER! Lucy likes to tell monster stories. She's told so many that her friends and her family are sick of it. Then one day, Lucy discovers a real, live monster: the librarian in charge of the summer read...

  • The Marlene Dietrich Murder Case

    George Baxt

    New Year's Eve, 1931: Marlene Dietrich, as the reigning queen of Hollywood, sees fit to throw a royal bash in order to show off her legendary legs - and her secret-recipe potato pancakes. Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, and Jean Harlow are only a few ...

  • A Shrine of Murders

    C.L. Grace

  • 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...

  • Bandit's Blood

    Clint Hawkins

  • Blood on the Plains

    Judd Cole

  • Cody's Ride

    Stan Wiseman

  • 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 ...

  • Echoes of the White Giraffe

    Sook Nyul Choi

    This follow-up to The Year of Impossible Goodbyes provides a revealing look at the role of women in Korean society, and the coming of age of one exceptional young woman. Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of "Year of Impossilbe Goodbyes", is now fifte...

  • Glory Trail

    Mike Blakely

  • The Gun Ketch

    Dewey Lambdin

    The first McBooks edition of The Gun Ketch, the fifth book in the popular Alan Lewrie series. It's 1786: Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last and prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the s...

  • The Leopard Unleashed

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    For four years, Renard, heir to Ravenstow, has been a crusader in Antioch, a city of heat and eroticism far removed from the Welsh Marches of his birth. It is here in an Arab tavern that he meets Olwen, a beautiful, predatory dancing girl who rules m...

  • 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....

  • The Long Trail North

    Robert J. Conley

  • Longarm and the Diamond Snatchers

    Tabor Evans

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Powder River Massacre

    Jake Logan

  • Rails West!

    Franklin Carter

    THEY BUILT A RAILROAD -- AND A NATION! After the bloodshed of the Civil War, America turned West ...The future of the nation lay in waiting, and so the race began to build a railroad to carry settlers across the Plains to the Pacific. This is the ...

  • 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...

  • The Riders of High Rock

    Louis L'Amour

    HOPALONG TAKES ON A GANG OF RUSTLERS AND A COLD-BLOODED KILLER WHO WANTS HIM DEAD Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in ...

  • Rocky Mountain Feud

    Jon Sharpe

  • Sante Fe Run

    Will Camp

  • Table Rock

    Les Savage Jr.

    As a result of being framed for cattle rustling, his father is killed and his mother is wounded by vigilantes, forcing seventeen-year-old Gordon Conners to overcome his aversion to guns to survive in the mountains. Reprint....

  • The Tapestry

    MaryAnn Minatra

    FROM TENNESSEE BATTLEFIELDS TO THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF, THIS SWEEPING CIVIL WAR EPIC TRACES THE LIVES OF TWO BROTHERS -- LINKED BY ONLY A BROKEN LOCKET, THE PEOPLE WHO LOVED THEM, AND THE TRIUMPH OF FAITHFUL PRAYER Ethan Alcoa could not ignore war ...

  • 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....

  • Thunderstick

    Don Coldsmith

  • To Arms! to Arms, in Dixie!

    J.T. Edson

    Assigned to investigate mysterious consignments of priceless weapons for her new employer, the U.S. Government, former rebel spy Belle Boyd runs up against the secret Brotherhood for Southern Freedom, a sinister band of renegades...

  • Wild River Massacre

    Jack Curtis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Waiting for the Wolf Moon

    Evelyn Vaughn

    Under a Raging Moon... Nobody had to tell Sylvie Peabody that some things were beyond human understanding. After all, she was a witch--a white witch of uncommon power. But even she was powerless to explain the nightmare that gripped the little tow...

  • 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...