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New Books List: 375 titles

  • Rock Video Strikes Again

    Barbara Adams

  • Of Quests and Kings

    Robert Adams

    Peaceful American homebody Sebastian Foster is swept back in time to a barbaric seventeenth-century England that never existed and into the role of commander of King Arthur of Tudor's forces, responsible for uniting warring Irish clans...

  • The Institution

    Walter Adamson

  • Twilight Child

    Warren Adler

    When Charlie and Molly’s son dies in an accident, their daughter-in-law remarries quickly and is vaulted into a new world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and to keep her young son free from his grandparents’ blue-...

  • No Sanctuary

    Richard Aellen

  • Seven Fables

    Aesop

  • The Freeman

    Jerry Ahern; Sharon Ahern

    The near future. Weak-kneed appeasers in Washington, D.C., have forged an alliance with the Soviet Union and created a police state within our own borders. The first victim of the new regime is the Bill of Rights. A daring band of freedom fighters in...

  • Searching Heart

    Patricia Aks

    Despite her love for her adopted parents, Sally Brighton is determined to find out who were her natural parents....

  • Hank's Woman

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    THE QUALITY OF LOVE As Quality Control Manager at Bunyan Manufacturing, Jennifer Wagner had dedicated herself to her career. For years she'd struggled up the corporate ladder, only to have someone else land "her" job. Hank Riley was an...

  • When Love Flies By

    Jeanne Allan

    It would be tempting fate to love a man like him... Her brother's wife had just delivered twins, so Lindsey tried to blot out the memories of her father's death and fly to Germany. If it hadn't been for the strong, sensitive man sit...

  • The Temporary Husband

    Barbara Allister

    THE IDEAL ARRANGEMENT Beautiful Miss Amanda Desmond had no interest in being a wife, for to be a man's possession was a notion that filled her with loathing. Handsome and wealthy Andrew Fairleigh, Lord Mainwaring, detested the idea of marriage,...

  • Conjuring Summer in

    Mildred Ames

    Sixteen-year-old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over the family's move to California; but a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue....

  • Time Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • Dark Angel

    V.C. Andrews

    AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR...FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PAST! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life -- of new friends, the best schools, beautiful...

  • Macroscope

    Piers Anthony

    Macroscope Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeas...

  • I Am Fifteen: And I Don't Want to Die

    Christine Arnothy

  • Chosen Parents

    Mel Arrighi

    A detective believes that Scott and Sandy Lamson, two bright, beautiful, and incestuous siblings, have murdered their parents and are engaged in a deadly, bizarre game that involves a search for new parents and strange accidents...

  • Daughters of the Law

    Sandy Asher

  • Pearl

    Helen Ashfield

    PASSIONATE VICTORY At eighteen, poor but hardworking Pearl Cartwright possessed a golden beauty that became her curse. For the impudent and philandering Bruce Sackville vowed to have her graceful form, and cleverly planned her seduction. Desperate...

  • Bride on Approval

    Elizabeth Ashton

    An arranged marriage was not the answer! Sancia longed to be free from the restrictive atmosphere of her father's house -- but her loveless upbringing had convinced her that she'd never be able to respond to a man's lovemaking. So, ...

  • Robot Dreams

    Isaac Asimov

    Legendary American adventurer and explorer Charles Burton Irwin, accompanied by his wife and children, builds a new life on the Western frontier, from the era of wagon trains and cattle drives to the dawn of the railroads...

  • Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000

    Isaac Asimov

  • No Way to Treat a Lady

    Jane Atkin

    She'd married another man to escape an obsessive love. But Leanne Ryan was divorced now and vulnerable. And Joe Dano, ex-hockey star, had become a tycoon, driven by his need to possess this ice princess who'd gotten away. Now Joe had the upper hand. ...

  • Wolf Rider

    Avi

    The phone rang three times before Andy picked it up. "Hello?" he said. A voice replied, "I just killed someone." Only Andy Zadinski is convinced that the caller is serious. But no one else will listen; not the police, not his friends, not even hi...

  • Golden Glory

    Stella Bagwell

    COWBOY'S DREAM ... Russell Harrison was after an elusive dream in which his wife had held no part. Rodeo was his narcotic, winning his high. Once he was out there rolling, Lynn was forgotten. Now, after five years, Lynn was back in Oklahoma...

  • Race Against Time

    Pip Baker

    YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a RACE AGAINST TIME. Doctor Who is the world's greatest Time Lord, but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion Peri, the D...

  • Hamilton Stark

    Russell Banks

    Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years...

  • Hold Back the Night

    Linda Barlow

    KIDNAPPED It was a land of beauty, fragrant with olive trees and wildflowers. Photographer Tracy Heath was in Turkey to shoot travel pictures, but the glittering waters of the Aegean made her forget the scenery and zoom in on a sailboat and its su...

  • Hammerlocke

    Jack Barnao

    John Locke, aka HammerLocke, an expert in guerilla tactics. The wealthy family of Herbert "Herbie" Ridley hires Locke to chaperone the wimpy teenager on a sojourn to Italy, where the tough hero is severely tested. Outnumbered and outfoxed, Locke is h...

  • The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories

    Marjorie Barnard

  • Alana

    Monica Barrie

    A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TORN BETWEEN HONOR AND DESIRE The Civil War had ravaged everything but her beauty and her dreams. Alana Belfores vowed to rebuild Riverbend at any cost -- even a loveless marriage. Not until Rafe Montgomery rode into he...

  • Paradise

    Donald Barthelme

    "No other word for it: a charming book."â,”Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

    Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends u...

  • Creep

    B.W. Battin

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Pamela Bauer

    LIFE WAS FAR TOO COMPLICATED What with a rebellious teenage daughter and an alarming attraction to sexy department store magnate Cole Braxton III, designer Rachel Kincaid hardly knew where to turn. She couldn't afford to fall in love with Cole;...

  • The Serpent Mage

    Greg Bear

    Berkley Books, 1986. Mass market paperback original, 1st edition Sequel to "The Infinity Concerto" (1984). Fans of epic fantasy, magical realism, and well-crafted alternate realities will enjoy these novels....

  • The Alley Cat

    Yves Beauchemin

    First published in Quebec in 1981, Beauchemin’s highly acclaimed comic masterpiece of storytelling follows in the tradition of the great novels of the 19th century.

    When Florent Boissonneault comes to the aid of an accident victim, his life ...

  • Tomorrow's Sphinx

    Clare Bell

    Kichebo, a female cheetah living in the Nile Valley in a future world thousands of years after humankind migrated to space to escape ecological catastrophe, finds her life compliclated by strange hunters in sky vehicles...

  • The Face in the Frost

    John Bellairs

    A quirky fantasy classic by “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).
     
    A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a ho...

  • The Eyes of the Killer Robot

    John Bellairs

    Will thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon suffer the same fate Evaristus Sloane's robot can only be activated by human eves, and the maniacal wizard has selected Johnny as the donor. When Johnny is kidnapped, Professor Childermass and Fergie race to Sloane...

  • Wild Horse Mesa

    Hillary Benford

  • False Impressions

    Karin Berne

  • Golden Bay

    Gloria Bevan

    Love was seldom where you looked for it Never again, Liz Stuart cautioned herself, would she fall a willing victim to the facile charms of an attractive stranger! With that conviction uppermost, she decided a holiday was in order. And so, with ...

  • The Parfit Knight

    Juliet Blyth

    A VOICE TO BE CHERISHED... That was how Rosalind Vernon, the exquisite mistress of Oakleigh Manor, perceived the stranger at her door. Beset by highwaymen, he had come in search of refuge. But Rosalind, robbed of sight by a childhood accident, had...

  • Just the Way You Are

    Janice Boies

    When the Cupid's Arrow computer matches her up with super cute Jeremy Griffin, Dee's ecstatic! But then she overhears him saying he'd never date a crazy girl like her. So Dee decides to become as calm and serious as he is-- and sure enough Jeremy ask...

  • The Mission

    Robert Bolt

    In order to come to terms with his violent past, soldier-of-fortune Rodrigo Mendoza joins forces with a priest, Father Gabriel, head of a Jesuit mission deep in the South American jungle, to battle ruthless slave traders preying on the Guarani native...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Barbara Boswell

    It was an impossible match, Kelly Malloy fumed when ordered to team up with Brandt Madison. If the man was such a good journalist, why was he working for one of the sleaziest rags at the checkout counter? But once she met the devastatingly handsome m...

  • The Mystery Lover's Companion

    Art Bourgeau

    1986 Crown hardcover, BCE though unstated. Art Bourgeau (A Lonely Way to Die). The ultimate reference source for fans of whodunits; a source book for all types of mysteries and thrillers, complete with descriptions and ratings. - Amazon...

  • The Blood of the Borgias

    Sarah Bradford

  • Den of Dragons

    J.H. Brennan

  • Shooting Star

    Barbara Bretton

    "Be daring," Katie's sister said So Katie Powers, staid Bostonian in the middle of an otherwise sensible vacation in Japan, followed the advice ... and was trapped with Tom Sagan in a trail that dangled high over a bottomless ravine, was stranded ...

  • Fairy Tale Treasury

    Dorothy Briggs

  • The Senator's Daughter

    Mary Bringle

    Charlotte Madigan, daughter of a powerful senator, finds her glittering, pampered world of high-level politics shattered by the shocking murder of her father at the hands of his mistress and the ensuing scandal, disgrace, and desolation...

  • Heat of the Night

    Annette Broadrick

    BREATHLESS In the heat of the night, trapped in a jungle in South America, Melanie took a deep breath. She'd encountered various obstacles on her journey through Colombia, but mudslides and earthquakes were nothing compared to Justin Drake. ...

  • Sweet Tempest

    Eileen Bryan

    Her only legacy was a fierce determination to succeed. At thirty Rachel Daniels was a widow and owner of a failing farm. How could she refuse the handsome drifter who offered to work for room and board until harvest? She couldn't afford to say no... ...

  • The Wedding at Port-Au-Prince

    Hans Christoph Buch

  • Wild Land, Wild Love

    Mallory Burgess

    HEARTS ON FIRE Genna felt a spark of white heat engulf her as Alex's mouth claimed hers. Sweet murmurings of love silenced her protest as he carried her across the room to rest on the soft white pillows... Yet instead of the love she longs for...

  • Present for Santa

    James Burke

  • A Fall from Aloft

    Brian Burland

  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    W.J. Burley

    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to ...

  • Taking Care of Yoki

    Barbara Campbell

    Nothing is ever simple for Barbara Ann, better known as Bob. No matter how hard she tries to do what's right, things always seem to turn out wrong. And there's no one she can turn to for help -- her father is away fighting in the w...

  • In La-La Land We Trust

    Robert Campbell

    When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank by the witch queens. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snu...

  • The Vampyre

    David Campton

  • After the Torchlight

    Diane Carey

    GREGORY GORDON'S COAL-BLACK EYES BORED STRAIGHT INTO MY SOUL. NO FORCE HAD EVER HELD ME IN PLACE LIKE THE GRIP OF HIS EYES AS HE MOVED TOWARD ME.... Beautiful Jean Forbes fled 18th-century Scotland to seek refuge from the ruthless British Army. ...

  • Battlestations!

    Diane Carey

    Back on Earth enjoying a well-deserved shore leave, Captain Kirk is rudely accosted by a trio of Starfleet Security guards. It seems he is wanted for questioning in connection with the theft of transwarp--the Federation's newest, most advanced propul...

  • It Walks by Night

    J.D. Carpenter

  • The Master Assassin

    Nick Carter

  • Teddy's Birthday

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • Mother's Little Helper

    Gina Cascone

    Paula, a suburban housewife who married her college sweetheart, finds life hoeplessly frustrating until she decides to take up jogging and meets an attractive high school senior who teaches her about growing up...

  • Assault into Libya

    Jim Case

    The killers had it coming to them! Book 2 of Cody's Army by Jim Case....

  • A Snake in the Grass

    Jack L. Chalker

    The Four Lords of the Diamond is a series of four science fiction novels. Each volume of the series primarily follows a duplicate of a government agent as he lands on his prison planet and begins to both investigate the menace to the civilized worlds...

  • The Witches Eye

    Steven Charles

    Jennifer Field and her friends investigate Witch's Eye, a mysterious lake, to search for clues to the terrible events stalking Thaler Academy only to stir up the evil, alien horror lurking deep in the murky waters...

  • One Boy Too Many

    Emily Chase

    Jane Barrett is in real trouble-- boy trouble. If Neal isn't sending her flowers from Boston, then Cary, a local student, is asking her for a date. Jane's friends can't believe Neal and Cary don't know about each other, but Jane can&#...

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Elizabeth Chater

    WITH AN EARLDOM AT STAKE, HER BROTHER'S MISHAPS WERE NO ACCIDENT! It took two attempts on her nine-year-old brother's life to alert Lady Leslie Endale that their greedy guardian March Wardell meant to have the family fortune. But transp...

  • Sweet Tomorrows

    Francine Christopher

    CUTTER WAS AS UNUSUAL AS HIS NAME Valerie Wentworth wasn't used to surprises. She'd traded in her close-to-the-edge existence on Wall Street for the placid predictability of a small New York town and ownership of an antique doll shop. C...

  • The Temptation to Exist

    E.M. Cioran

  • Scarlet Town

    Maryhelen Clague

  • Passion and Possession

    Kathy Clark

    Love with a proper stranger had its price. But Jessica Scott was willing to assume all risks -- alone. She'd thought their week of passion was a fleeting vacation fling until she had to face the unexpected consequences. Then Mark Kendrick appeare...

  • Family Ties

    Joe Claro

  • Undercover Affair

    Sydney Ann Clary

    Flame Garret had to be free. Her husband, Logan, left her no choice. Possessive, proud, resentful of her success as a pop singer and her help in his years as a struggling young lawyer, he'd forced her decision. Flame thought their passion had bur...

  • Ophelia's Voyage To Japan

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • Daddy

    Charles Cohen

    Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant...

  • Star Quality

    Jennifer Cole

    Three teenaged sisters--Nicole, embarking on a modeling career; Mollie, who wants to be an actress; and Cindy, who plans to be a stunt woman--share clothes, their homework, and the hopes, dreams, and fears of their lives....

  • The Gemini Plot

    Eric J. Collenette

  • Back to Malachi

    Robert J. Conley

  • Wild Temptation

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Carne Harlow's every nerve tingled with danger. Champion race-car driver Grant Cody lived in the fast lane -- and wanted to take her along for the ride. For the first time she'd been kissed by a man who'd found a vein of response in her ...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Ruth

    Jeremy Cooper

  • Dance With Me

    M.E. Cooper

    Getting in Step... It seems that nothing will cheer up Fiona Stone when she doesn't get into London's prestigious National Ballet. So when she joins the rest of her family in Rose Hill, her brother Jeremy sets her up on a blind date with gorgeous, l...

  • Wild Star

    Catherine Coulter

    He had stopped kissing her...leaving her parted lips trembling, waiting for more. Oh, how she wanted him But Byrony knew that Brent Hammond was the last man in the world she should want. This handsome San Francisco gambler was legendary for all t...

  • The Soldier's Prize

    Dan Cragg

  • The Marriage Deal

    Sara Craven

    Jago was the only possible solution Ashley Landon was desperate. After two years of her best efforts as chairman, her family's business faced either bankruptcy or a takeover. Then Jago Marrick, her ex-fiance, turned up with a hardheaded altern...

  • Still Waters

    Kathleen Creighton

    Determined to face her fear of water, Maddy Gordon signed up for beginner swimming, and found herself surrounded by seven-year-olds! And why did her instructor have to be golden-muscled Olympic swimmer Zack London, whose grin still gave her goose bu...

  • Difficult Death

    Rene Crevel

  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    Robert Crichton

    In the last days of World War II, German forces are sent to occupy the Italian hill town, Santa Vittoria, and claim its great treasure: one million bottles of the Santa Vittoria wine that is its lifeblood. The clownish mayor, Bombolini, matches wits ...

  • Lever Action

    Kit Dalton

  • The Wrong Mirror

    Emma Darcy

    He had robbed her of everyone she loved To Karen Aylward, newspaper magnate Hal Chissolm was a monster. He'd refused to marry Kirsty, her pregnant twin sister, so that Kirsty had given up their son at birth--to be adopted by Karen. Then Kir...

  • Lantana Lane

    Eleanor Dark

    We have lived round the corner from the world, with not even a signpost to betray our whereabouts... and if the treasure we have accumulated makes no show upon our bank statements, neither is it subject to income tax.'Lantana, bushy and massive, is A...

  • The Little Company

    Eleanor Dark

    It is 1941 and the storm clouds of war gather over Australia. In the mountains outside Sydney the Massey family are reunited by their father's death. Gilbert is a successful novelist, struggling with writer's block in middle age. A socialist and inte...

  • Out of the Blue

    Mons Daveson

    She didn't need supervision! When Ainsleigh Dexter arrived at Cooktown, she already hated the man who had taken over her life. How could her father have named a total stranger as her guardian? But he needn't think he'd get his own way ...

  • The Real Thing

    Barbara Delinsky

    It was a setup After breaking her leg, aerobics instructor Deirdre Joyce was fit company for no one. Especially not for equally disgruntled Neil Hersey, whose reputation as a lawyer had been unjustly tarnished. Craving solitude, both turned to ...

  • Wrack and Roll

    Bradley Denton

  • Hide and Seek

    Ellen Devlin

  • Too Much Saxon Violence: and Other Important Issues for Punsters

    Paul Dickson

  • Galactic Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    THE GREATEST GALACTIC MANHUNT OF ALL TIME A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade--an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to sett...

  • A Time for Us

    E.V. Dolan

  • Mirror of Her Dreams

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Mirror of Her Dreams is the story of Terisa Morgan and Geraden, son of the Domne, in the strange land called Mordant. It is a rich and finely textured novel of love and lust, power and court politics, in this place where nothing is ever what it s...

  • Premier Book of Major Poets

    Anita Dore

    This brilliant collection spans the Middle Ages to modern day to bring you a unique selection of the greatest poetry of all times. Arranged around major themes such as love and hate, war and peace, liberty and oppression, alienation and city life, TH...

  • Borrowed Summer

    Marion Walker Doren

  • Flame of Fidelity

    Sandra Dubay

    SHE SET MEN'S PASSIONS ABLAZE Lovely Fidelity Fairfax inflamed the desires of every man she met. Her search for a lasting love led her from one forbidden romance to another, and finally to England's royal court, where she caught the eye of the kin...

  • The Ransome Inheritance

    Rachelle Edwards

    "WHEN I ARRIVED IN LONDON I WAS BUT A GREEN GIRL. I AM NO LONGER A CHAWBACON, AND I TRUST NO ONE!" The friendless Miss Jenna Tregail had ample reason to say as much. Bamboozled by an infamous bawd, the innocent Jenna coshed an old lecher and got h...

  • Lone Star and the Nevada Mustangs

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki round up a pack of wild horses -- and a coffin-load of danger in the fifty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and K...

  • Longarm and the Escape Artist

    Tabor Evans

    THE HANGMAN OR THE WIDOW? California lawmen have nabbed Chauncey Mahoney, alias the Stovespit Kid, and it's Longarm's job to bring him back to Denver to stand trial for the murder of a U.S. Marshal. But the Kid doesn't stay jailed long. Like spit ...

  • Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration

    Allen Eyles

    sherloch homes: a centenary celebraton is illustrations with many of the original classic illustrations by such artists as sidney paget and frederic dorr steele, and also with scenes from holmes representations on stage and sceen....

  • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    Derek Farmer

  • Blood River Down

    Lionel Fenn

  • Cajun Man

    Olivia Ferrell

    SOUTHERN MAN Carol DuBois was strong, smart and ambitious. She knew she could run the family business better than her brother, but her father had been blind to everything except the fact that she was a woman. So she set out to prove she could make...

  • The Seven Ages

    Eva Figes

  • The Secret of the Round Beast

    John Forrester

    While the rebel Ryland lies imprisoned on the moon by the Overone Guardians, his teenage children and their allies continue their fight on Old Earth against the Gorid and the hybrid creatures he has created....

  • The Man in the Monkey Suit

    Oswaldo Franca Jr.

    Alfonso, a mechanic and matter-of-fact hero in a world so drab it's comical, buys a garage from two friends who have sold to him because ``the place was out of control.'' Alfonso attempts to bring order to the business but is thwarted, and his person...

  • Follow Your Heart

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • Cold Iron

    Nicolas Freeling

    The ninth Inspector Castang murder mystery is “a heady pleasure” in which “learning the identity of the miscreant is only one of the delights” (Publishers Weekly).Recently promoted to Commissaire of a small province in northea...

  • Soldier Boy

    Michael French

  • The Unwilling Heiress

    Deborah Fruchey

    Lucy Trahern, sometime governess to the three Bostram children, has suddenly lost her position. As the story opens, she is wandering London without baggage or money in the rain, looking for a night’s shelter. Beyond hope, she finds two old ladies w...

  • Ease

    Patrick Gale

    A world-weary playwright takes on a fake name and a sleazy apartment -- and learns to live again -- in this charming novel from bestselling author Patrick Gale. Success came quick to Domina Tey. An award-winning playwright, Domina was famous before s...

  • Pets for Sale

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Hatteras Light

    Philip Gerard

    Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations...

  • Dancing With Mermaids

    Miles Gibson

    First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ebbs...

  • A Death for a Dancer

    E.X. Giroux

    Gentlemanly Robert Forsythe and his longtime PA "Sandy" Sanderson are sleuthing up a storm, investigating innocent victims who maybe weren’t so innocent after all…No, Katherine St. Croix was not a hoofer, but she also wasn’t...

  • The Karamanov Equations

    Marshall Goldberg

  • The Journal Of Emily Rose

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

  • My Only Love, My Only Hate

    Lucy Gordon

    TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY Giles Blake's reputation as a prosecuting attorney had been established eight years ago when he put Adam Haines behind bars. Though Haines had been guilty, his daughter had never forgiven the charismatic lawyer for twist...

  • New, Improved Murder

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Jack Dwyer comes to the aid of his former love, Jane Branigan, after she is found in a state of shock holding a recently fired gun near the body of her current lover, advertising executive Stephen Elliot...

  • Doc

    Richard Graber

  • There Are No Spies

    Bill Granger

    The time is March. The name is Devereaux -- the November Man -- the American field officer who has gone to ground on Lake Geneva. He doesn't know that a beautiful KGB agent has been ordered to stalk two Novembers -- and kill them both...or that Hanl...

  • Shadows 6

    Charles L. Grant

  • The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories

    Stephen Gray

  • The Orphan's Disguise

    Vanessa Gray

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME Lovely young Miss Corliss Hewett was a runaway who had run into a most perplexing pack of trouble. Fleeing her fate as a poor and put-upon relation of the terrifyingly tyrannical Lady Dacre, Corliss sought refuge under an...

  • A Special Man

    Billie Green

    Greenleigh Acres was a refuge for the rich and famous, and it was there that Amanda first saw the man she knew only as "Danny." Her heart ached at seeing him confined, and she vowed to let him taste freedom. Away from Greenleigh, "Dann...

  • Double Trouble

    Yvonne Greene

  • Deep Kill

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Mists over Mosley

    John Greenwood

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy

    L.B. Greenwood

  • Fire Signs

    Jocelyn Griffin

    RIVALS Sara knew she had to be wary of Nick Foster. As her chief rival, he displayed a fearlessness that was unmatched in Boston's business world. Something in his dark lion's eyes ignited a fire in Sara's soul, intense and dangerous. And with one...

  • The Colonels

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the States to forge a new type of American soldie...

  • Semper Fi

    W.E.B. Griffin

    THE PROUDEST OF THE PROUD. THE MARINES. From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed BROTH...

  • I Am the Only Running Footman

    Martha Grimes

    Not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman lies the body of a blond shopgirl. She has been strangled with her own scarf-a fact that reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irasci...

  • The Night-Blooming Cereus

    Joan Hadley

    Theo Bloomer, a retired Connecticut florist, discovers that his niece, Dorrie Caldicott, refuses to leave a kibbutz in Israel because her Vassar roommate may be involved with some dangerous characters implicated in gunrunning and terrorism...

  • The Golden Lion

    Pamela Haines

    Italy -- it was where Maria Verzotto was born and where secret societies, ruled by the man they called "the Lion;' controlled her family's fate. From here, with her heritage locked deep in her heart, destiny would toss Maria from poverty ...

  • Go Away, Stay Away

    Gail E. Haley

  • Rich Hall's Vanishing America

    Rich Hall

  • The Art of the Tale

    Daniel Halpern

    Collects masterpieces of short fiction--from traditional forms and folktales to surrealism--and offers a wide representation of authors from the United States as well as European and newer Third World literature...

  • The Silent Tower

    Barbara Hambly

    In her latest novel, The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly has written a complex tale of dark magic, mystery and deadly danger involving a woman computer programmer who struggles to help a condemned wizard save--or perhaps destroy?--two worlds......

  • Big Sisters Are Bad Witches

    Morse Hamilton

  • The Wanderer's Promise

    Paula Hamilton

    Her chance of a lifetime had one hitch -- partnership with a man she despised. Brenda Dupree was a whiz at law and numbers. Steve Kingsley had the hands-on know-how they needed to monitor KLM's oil wells. But how could she trust him? Contemptuous...

  • All My Tomorrows

    Rosemary Hammond

    She didn't want a part-time love From the first night when Dr. Jessica Carpenter opened her door to Jason Strong, she sensed he was dangerous. As she nursed his wounds in war-torn San Cristobal, Jessica fell in love with the fugitive reporter....

  • Sleep Of Spies

    Palma Harcourt

    Philip Camplin is determined who, inside the ministry of defense, is responsible for substituting nerve gas for the tear gas British troops used to disperse a peaceful demonstration in Northern Ireland...

  • The Alamo Treasure

    J.D. Hardin

  • Malice Domestic

    Mollie Hardwick

    LIFE ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND DOES WONDERS FOR A BROKEN HEART. Her new life in a tiny Kent village suits Doran Fairweather to a T. Devastated by a bad love affair, she now finds deep contentment in her shabby old house, her antiques business,...

  • Winter in Eden

    Harry Harrison

    Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents challenged humans for mastery o...

  • Gilbert and the Birthday Cake

    Jack Harvey

  • Simon's Night

    Jon Hassler

    "A marvel. Out of Old Age, which our peculiar times have determined to view as a sort of generational sin, Jon Hassler has drawn forth a poignant, funny, wise novel about Eternal Youth."
    THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
    Simon Shea, a retired professo...

  • The Cloisonne Locket

    Barbara Hazard

    THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true -- and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his p...

  • Acts of Contrition

    William Heffernan

    Taut and grittily realistic, this explosive novel of deceit and revenge weaves a suspenseful tale of a man who built his career on his ability to cover up the past, and of the woman who made it her business to expose it. From the author of The Corsic...

  • Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire

    Andrew Helfer

    The young reader joins forces with dashing archaeologist Indiana Jones to search for a mysterious goblet--which, according to legend, can grant eternal life to those who drink from it--believed to be buried in the grave of the notorious, fifteenth-ce...

  • Unconfirmed Kill

    Eric Helm

    A year in the jungles of Vietnam brings its own reprieve - R and R. The men of U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555 are excited at the prospect of time away from that hellish conflict. But, although they don't know it, the squad is marked for death ...

  • The Bishop

    David Helwig

    Tells the life of an Anglican bishop, whose life has been full, but who now lies on his deathbed after a debilitating stroke. The story looks at several people whose lives touch that of the bishop, slowly, the reader pieces together the life of a rem...

  • Roman Fantasy

    Betty Henrichs

  • Bitterness

    James Henry

  • Robak's Fire

    Joe L. Hensley

  • Colsec Rebellion

    Douglas Hill

    In this thrilling conclusion to the ColSec Trilogy, five young outcasts return from exile to free Earth from an authoritarian government. In the savage streets, they rally the Earth's people to fight for freedom....

  • Skinwalkers

    Tony Hillerman

    Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all...

  • Every Moment Counts

    Martha Hix

    From the ashes of her loveless existence, Marcella Parker put all her energies into her career. Now, newly arrived in Texas and eager to start her vice presidency at Goodman National Bank, she certainly couldn't fall for the cool green eyes of he...

  • A Lover Scorned

    Isabelle Holland

    Reverend Claire Aldington was upset enough to learn a female colleague had been killed. Then she learned that her fiance had secretly known the woman. When more murders start to occur, Claire joins the police to catch the killer--who may turn out to ...

  • I Know a Trick Worth Two of That

    Samuel Holt

    Sam Holt spent years playing Packard, everyone's favorite TV-detective; he's got no desire to play sleuth in real life. But when a long-lost pal calls with a rant about conspiracies, sinister cargo ships and hit men, and then gets poisoned at a party...

  • Rafe, the Maverick

    Kay Hooper

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land...and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men...rakes and charmers...they needed only love to make their lives complete. ...

  • The Dragon Portfolio

    Richard Hoyt

    In China...the reds are out to hit American capital markets for half a billion dollars.... Ella Nidech, American spy on the rise, and James Burlane, the CIA-s very best man of action...turn out to be the hottest new team to do battle...with others...

  • The Forever Promise

    Meg Hudson

    THIS WAS THEIR SECOND CHANCE On a sunny June day fourteen years ago, just hours before she was to wed King Faraday, her high-school sweetheart, Claire Parmeter made a devastating discovery. Another woman was carrying her fiance's child. Claire fle...

  • Ball and Chain

    E.J. Hunter

  • Judgment in Blood

    Jack D. Hunter

  • Welcome the Morning

    Bobby Hutchinson

    She could drive a man to unnatural acts No one but Charlie Cossini and her construction crew had ever proven immune to the lure of Haleiwa, Hawaii. Benjamin Valentine Gilmour, a man who gave new meaning to the term "idle rich," considered Charlie'...

  • The Hills Are Eternal

    Sara Hylton

  • Necessary

    Ken Jackson

    The Mob from Kansas City has been moving construction equipment around for years, "blue-skying" and making lots of money for themselves and for corrupt county and city commissioners. An anonymous call points Necessary toward a crooked construction fo...

  • A Lucky Star

    Jacqueline Jade

    MYSTERIOUS DESIGNS? What had really happened to the chief costume designer for the new theater production of The Tempest? Inheriting the job should have been Marti Montagne's big break. Instead, she found herself involved with a mystery--and direc...

  • The Dream Makers

    Anna James

    HOLLYWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA Diligence Hall Plantation was perfect for the filming of Glory Road, but reclusive Reese Benedict had no intention of letting Hollywood film people near the place. So Eva Sinclair, Marchetti Films' best troubleshoote...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Arlene James

    ROMANCING THE OPPOSITION Caleen Brady mayor? If she'd been unsure of the idea before, she certainly wasn't after she hit that pothole. Why, if her mysterious Prince Charming hadn't rushed her to the hospital, who knows what might'...

  • The Mallory Touch

    Muriel Jensen

    Randy thought she had charge of her own destiny That is until Matt Mallory, with his famous Midas touch, came to Scannon Cove, Oregon, to set up the Cove Mallory Inn. At first he was just a customer buying a car at Stanton Motors, Randy's dealersh...

  • York, the Renegade

    Iris Johansen

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land ... and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men... rakes and charmers... they needed only love to make their lives complete...

  • Colter's Wife

    Joan Johnston

    IN A BOLD, DARING BARGAIN SHE MARRIED A STRANGER... AND DISCOVERED NEW DEPTHS OF DESIRE! It was a shocking alliance indeed - Kinyan Holloway, the proud young widow, and Benjamin Colter, the tall, scarred drifter driven by a dream. Only as a marrie...

  • Carlisles All

    Norma Johnston

    When her father's taken hostage in the Middle East and her mother goes to Europe to keep close to the situation, Jess Carlisle, fifteen, must handle the press and take care of her brothers and sisters...

  • Bloodland

    William W. Johnstone

    Returning home to Lewiston, Nebraska, after serving as a mercenary for many years, Key Lessard must save his town and the world when a diabolical neo-Nazi group forms a violent army bent on destroying anyone who has not joined their twisted regiment....

  • The Well

    Elizabeth Jolley

    Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the desert...

  • Woman in a Lampshade

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • Loving // Bride in Name Only

    Penny Jordan

    He offered her marriage--but only in name Inheriting a small cottage near London had allowed Claire Richards to achieve independence for herself and her young daughter, Lucy. So when Jay Fraser accused her of encouraging Lucy's friendship with...

  • Courting Trouble

    Janet Joyce

    ORDER IN THE COURT Judge Blythe Cramer had always run a tight courtroom until hot-tempered attorney Patrick McBride stormed in. It wasn't her first encounter with the wild Irishman--Blythe and Patrick had attended the same grammar school and gradu...

  • The Toplofty Lord Thorpe

    Michelle Kasey

    THE UNSUSPECTING EARL Miss Lucy Gladwin knew all the faults of the eminent, elegant Julian Rutherford, Earl of Thorpe. Julian was not only unbearably arrogant, he was insufferably self-centered and infuriatingly egotistical, as pleased with himsel...

  • Fire and Ice

    Carol Katz

    Kirsten Holley knows the exhilaration of skating, and the devastation of defeat. Now she needs all the courage she can muster to launch her skating comeback--and confront Rory Lanceford, the coach who abandoned her in her darkest hour... the lover wh...

  • Hit and Run Holiday

    Carolyn Keene

    A friend's near-murder plunges Nancy into a dark tangle of clues on Florida's sunny beaches Sun, surf and boys are all Nancy, Bess and George have on their minds when they cruise into Ft. Lauderdale for a week of fun. But that changes abruptly whe...

  • The Big Brand

    Elmer Kelton

  • Flame of the Inquisition

    Marc Kornblatt

    IT IS THE YEAR 1487. You have traveled back to Spain during the Inquisition to find Queen Isabella. You've just scaled the walls of an enemy castle when suddenly one of the guards wielding a razor-sharp scimitar rushes at you. You must act quickly...

  • Not This August

    C.M. Kornbluth

    Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender to the armies of China and Russia?...