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  • America's Zero Hour

    Ryder Stacy

  • 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 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...

  • Contract: Terror Summit

    Mike McCray

    Five nuclear bombs are in the hands of an unidentified madman somewhere in the Sahara. Or so the Black Berets have been led to believe.When a bloody raid in Libya turns up nothing but a camp of terrorists who know nothing about any bombs, the elite A...

  • Death Has a Name

    Don Pendleton

    TARGET: ISRAEL Israel--a nation born of war and nurtured under siege--is the target for a daring raid by a Palestinian suicide squad. More than six thousand miles away in a Florida safehouse, Mack Bolan learns of the plot from a mortally wounde...

  • Deep Kill

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Escape from Gulag Taria

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Master Assassin

    Nick Carter

  • Mystery of the Secret Room

    Ellen Kushner

  • The Secret of Rainbow Island

    Judith Bauer Stamper

    YOU are JEM, everyone's favorite rock star. An unscrupulous developer wants to turn beautiful Rainbow Island into a tourist trap and your friend Samantha, whose father owned the island, needs five million dollars to save it. The future of a little pi...

  • 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...

  • Twin Cities Run

    David Robbins

  • 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 120-Hour Clock

    Francis M. Nevins Jr.

  • A Conspiracy of Strangers

    Lee Martin

    Detective Deb Ralston's chance discovery of a dead woman, nine months pregnant, in a ditch leads her into a morass of kidnapping and murder in which she has to fight for her own life and for her son's life as well....

  • Good and Dead

    Jane Langton

    THE OLD WEST CHURCH HAD MORE REASONS THAN MOST TO WORRY ABOUT DECLINING MEMBERSHIP.... It isn't a loss of faith that is emptying the pews at Old West Church. It is something far more sinister-an inexplicable number of people are taking up residenc...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Bitterness

    James Henry

  • All for Love

    Sherryl Woods

    When a tragic fall shattered his dreams, tennis champ Evan Thomas sought refuge in bitter isolation ... Now feisty schoolteacher Corey Reed is determined to draw him out with her heart-melting gaze, her cheery badgering, and a passel of roughneck kid...

  • 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....

  • Almost Heaven

    Lee Williams

    Oh, to see Davey once more. As the plane's about to crash, Catrina Reed scribbles that last request. Upon her miraculous survival, she's stunned to discover her well-meaning roommate has attempted to fulfill her wish! But instead of Catrina's childho...

  • Beware of Married Men

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    She refused to be "the other woman" Jorja Reynolds liked her boss, Daniel Lecomber, and her job as his personal assistant in the Lecomber real-estate firm. She also adored his small son Toby. But when her relationship with Dan developed...

  • Beyond Her Control

    Jessica Steele

    It was time to live for herself Brooke had held the family together ever since her mother's death, putting off her own dreams for the sake of her father, younger brother and sister. So when her sister, staying at a chateau in France to upgr...

  • Breaking Free

    Marcella Thompson

    "You mean chickens come with the farm!" Melissa had just bought property for the first time in her life, and was delighted to discover a poultry contract was part of the bargain. To a city girl from Tulsa it seemed the perfect touch to a p...

  • 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, ...

  • Burke, the Kingpin

    Fayrene Preston

    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...

  • Butterfly Autumn

    Carolyn Seabaugh

    LOVE IS HERE TO STAY Adriana Anderson was back home for good. Growing up in an air force family had kept her moving long enough. But now, with tasks like remodeling her parents' old Victorian home and teaching at the university, her life was all w...

  • 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...

  • A Change of Heart

    Anne Hunter Lowell

    During a ski trip, six members of the most exclusive sorority at William Howard Taft High School find themselves sharing one room and, to make matters worse, two of the girls are attracted to the same guy...

  • Child's Play

    Peggy Nicholson

    SHE'D SET HERSELF A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TASK Snatching a small boy from under his bodyguard's nose was going to prove no mean feat. But Tey Kenyon was committed. She'd built her plan on cunning and deceit, but Mac McAllister proved an...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Exclusive Contract

    Dixie McKeone

    Relying on first impressions could be trouble .. . Janet Talbot may have been fresh from the Midwest, but she knew the first rule of professional counseling--never get romantically involved with a client. But as an enthusiastic novice, Janet co...

  • Falling For You

    Lisa Swazey

  • Fascination

    Patricia Lake

    He penetrated all her defenses Pretending indifference to Jordan Haves was too much of a challenge to Lise Holbrook's acting abilities. From the instant they met at a party in London, the wealthy patron of the arts dominated her thoughts. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Follow Your Heart

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • For All Time

    Anne Shorr

    She had trained her sights on him When Callie Barnes inherited one of Sanibel Island's oldest newspapers, her first move was to launch a campaign against the "progress" marring her beloved home. As the most powerful developer involved, the dynamic...

  • For the Love of Mike

    Candace Schuler

    Beneath the coveralls was a vibrant woman Limo service owner "Mike" Frazer preferred to spend her time tinkering with the engines of her prized fleet. So she was nonplussed when sexy Devlin Wingate requested that she personally chauffeur him aroun...

  • 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...

  • Foxy Lady

    Marie Nicole

    A SPORTING CHANCE... Dallas Carlyle wasn't the kind of female sports reporter who felt she needed to go into the locker room to get her story, but star pitcher and all-around ladies' man Ryan Fox didn't give her a choice. If he had to give this Da...

  • The Game of Love

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    HE CAME CRASHING INTO HER LIFE! They met over smashed fenders and clashing tempers, and if Jade never saw the arrogant stranger again it would be altogether too soon. It was not to be. His name was Jeff Martin, and he was the ex-baseball star c...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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;...

  • 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...

  • Hanky-Panky

    Jan Mathews

    Why does Phillip Manning accuse respectable Darcy Kincaid of being a high-class hooker? Why does Darcy's teenage sister hit him over the head with a gin bottle? Darcy doesn't know the answers only that Phillip conducts the strangest job interview. An...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • In Love With the Man

    Marjorie Lewty

    This was one adventure her heart hadn't planned As a junior programmer, being chosen for the Tokyo fact-finding team represented the career opportunity of a lifetime for Pippa Marsden. And the prospect of sharing the exciting East with Adri...

  • The Journal Of Emily Rose

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

  • Journeys

    Judith Summers

  • 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...

  • Kevin's Story

    Adrienne Staff

    Kevin Ross knew how far he'd come since his lonely childhood--now he had a wonderful family of friends, a thriving business...and a secret dream he refused to confess, even to himself. When gorgeous Suzy Keller swept into his life. Kevin felt a sudde...

  • King of Seduction

    Alison Tyler (1)

    He was too handsome to trust. Amanda Caselli didn't even try to hide her contempt for Nicholas Banat, a guest at her mother's Newport estate. Was he a gigolo ... or merely a man with an intriguing past? He'd escaped from his own country and was sti...

  • Laying Down the Law

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    Carly Jaymes had exciting plans. Filled with sunny enthusiasm, she moved to Trent County, North Carolina, and into the old Wainwright mansion. But someone had other plans for her. A malicious ghost, a mysterious phone-caller, and a menacing visitor b...

  • Legacy of the Wolf

    Sonja Massie

    The legendary Wolf Rock rose high above the lush greenery covering the tiny island. And jutting sharply into the golden Caribbean sky gleamed its crowning jewel, the lighthouse. Inside lived in the man Brittany David had come to see. Grandson of Wolf...

  • Listen for the Drummer

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Pounced on by a screeching cat, then tackled by a mountain of licking dog, Hunter Emerson knew instantly that life around Brenna MacPhee would never be dull! With her mop of honey blond curls and eyes that shone with wicked humor, Brenna knocked the ...

  • Love in the Dark

    Charlotte Lamb

    He had always been a threat. Stephanie had come halfway around the world, built a new life, met another man. And now Gerard Tenniel had arrived -- Gerard, who knew all about the scandal five years earlier and threatened to talk about it. Unless. ...

  • 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 wi...

  • 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 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 deal...

  • 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...

  • Moroccan Madness

    Angela Wells

    The magic of their love still held her to him On the night of their wedding, Karim's trust in Vida had been shaken. And without forgiveness Vida had felt there could be no marriage. So, although she loved him, Vida left and tried to close t...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Out of the Shadows

    Sandra Marton

    "I'll always do what's best for you." All that Mrs. Webster dreamed of for her daughter was acceptance by San Jacinto's tightly knit country club set. She went out of her way to steer Lauren toward the right sort, insisting, &#...

  • 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...

  • The Perfect Mix

    Cara McLean

    His timing was perfect Aubrey Jones didn't know it, but she was waiting for a hero. And when Robert Browning charged in to protect her purebred cat from being stolen, he was dangerously close to becoming her knight in shining armor. But could s...

  • Promise Me Love

    Jane Redish

    Until now, Julie was afraid that Chad Harris - with his deep green eyes and heart-stopping smile - would never notice her. Then he gets a job working with her at her family's stable, and Julie begins to think there's hope. And when he finally asks he...

  • Promises Broken

    Francine Pascal

  • Protege

    Justine Valenti

    Successful TV producer Diana Sinclair falls in love with Luke Merriman, the star she created, but ruthless and ambitious production assistant Nikki DePaul threatens to steal Diana's lover and her career...

  • Proud Surrender

    Jackie Leigh

    What terrible grief has driven wealthy Sean Bridges to rugged isolation in the North Carolina mountains? Teri MacKinley wants his help on her folklore project, but she can't stand his fierce hostility. Still, she's drawn by his powerfully masculine p...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Roman Fantasy

    Betty Henrichs

  • Roses and Regrets

    Bay Matthews

    It took two to make love. It took two to make a baby. It took two to destroy a marriage. And now, eight years later Ginna LeGrand was returning to her husband's Louisiana thoroughbred farm. Ginna hoped that she and Ryan could pull together and disc...

  • Rugged Glory

    Cait Logan

    Ben Woden -- To Sami, he's six feet plus of overpowering masculinity, a hard-brawling, blunt-talking Wyoming rancher who wants her to tutor his rebellious teenage son. Edgy as a grizzly, ornery as a polecat, he's all lean, tough, elemental male. Some...

  • Runaway Heart

    Clare Richmond

    Love was an act of faith for Barbara Private investigator Daniel McGuinn appeared to be an open book--but one that shut tight if you tried to read the pages. Barbara Emerson should have been suspicious of a man as elusive as Dan, but instead she h...

  • 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...

  • Sheer Honesty

    Susan Phillips (2)

    A GOOD DEAL Valerie Dixon had no problem assessing the value of real estate. So when John Spencer tried to sell her his brother's ramshackle house, it was love at first sight--with both the house and John. But Valerie wasn't quite as experience...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Sweet Mountain Magic

    Emilie Richards

    BELIEVE IN MAGIC? No way. Astute, logical Sarah MacDonald had based her life on facts that were tried and true. No starry-eyed dreamer was going to change her way of thinking. Then she discovered Galen Madigan, tired and wounded, hiding out in ...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • 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... ...

  • 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...

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Elizabeth Lowell

    PUPPETS ON A STRING China's most priceless artifacts are being smuggled into the U.S. An international crisis is about to explode. Unless a desparate trap to catch a thief succeeds. And one woman is the key. LINDSAY DANCER - Her worldwide reput...

  • A Time for Us

    E.V. Dolan

  • Triple Threat

    Eleanor Woods

    There was no love lost between Jordon and Rand Maxwell. If some lingering concern had driven Rand to his ex-wife's hospital bedside after she was shot in a holdup, what had made him stay? After three years Jordon was astonished that the man who'd acc...

  • 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...

  • A Walk in Paradise

    Ada Steward

    The sea was a peaceful whisper of azure, the island a plantation of blooming hibiscus and wild greenery. A walk along St. Croix was like a walk in paradise, but Haley Canton wasn't in the Caribbean seeking pleasure. She wanted vengeance, and Rye Pier...

  • Walk With Danger

    Susan Rubin

    A murderer was loose in the Santa Monica neighborhood where Sharon lived. She was determined to do something about it, and came up with a plan that might prevent further tragedies. She would see to it that as many little kids as possible got to schoo...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Will and a Way

    Nora Roberts

    It was worse than winning the lottery--much worse. This bequest might mean more money, but the strings attached had Pandora McVie tied up in knots. Respecting Uncle Jolley's last wishes meant spending time isolated in the Catskills with Michael Donah...

  • Winter Carnival

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield's enjoyment of the Winter Carnival, Sweet Valley High's weekend at a ski resort, is threatened by the inconsiderate attitude of her twin sister, Jessica, and by Jessica's interference between Elizabeth and her boyfriend...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Blood River Down

    Lionel Fenn

  • Den of Dragons

    J.H. Brennan

  • The Desecration

    Mark C. Perry

    They clashed in a battle older than history... As the dwarf king Mearead, lord of the Crystal Caves, stood gazing at the golden gates of Tolan, he remembered those dark times when evil was rampant and the Dark Lord had the upper hand. Those were t...

  • 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...

  • Fairy Tale Treasury

    Dorothy Briggs

  • Groa's Other Eye

    Dennis Schmidt

    THE QUEST Vestla Ravenhair, mother to Voden, spoke of the Well of Mimir with her dying breath. The gods who guided Voden said that to go there was but part of his Destiny. And the fearful Power that lay coiled within would not let him deny the tru...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • More Adventures of Samurai Cat

    Mark E. Rogers

  • 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 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......

  • Soldier of the Mist

    Gene Wolfe

    "A marvelously fluent, evocative historical...glowing, fascinating intricate work, full of gods and ghosts and magical metamorphoses, set forth in a modern prose that agreeably captures the rhythm and spirit of the period." --Kirkus Reviews...

  • 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...

  • Crystal Flame

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    HE WAS FIRE... SHE WAS ICE... TOGETHER THEIR PASSION WAS A CRYSTAL FLAME A woman of glittering eyes and cool celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage. Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly se...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Assault into Libya

    Jim Case

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

  • Beats Me, Claude

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Beiderbecke Tapes

    A. Plater

  • Big City Detective

    Jack Dautrich

  • Big Sisters Are Bad Witches

    Morse Hamilton

  • 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...

  • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    Derek Farmer

  • Bones of God

    Stephen Leigh

    On the Earth of 2558 A.D., the followers of Molitor Ab believe they have found their savior--the Sartius Exori--in the person of Colin Fairwood, who promises to deliver them from the oppression of the ruling Zakkaist church...

  • Borrowed Summer

    Marion Walker Doren

  • Brandon Papers

    Brandon Quentin

  • Buck

    Tamela Larimer

  • The Calculus of Murder

    Erik Rosenthal

  • 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...

  • The Cattlemen

    Bill Pronzini

  • Centrifuge

    J.C. Pollock

    His devastating secret might save his country -- if his country didn't kill him first! Fighting behind the lines in Vietnam, Mike Slater had learned the fine art of killing. He'd also learned a secret that turned out to be a timebomb. Because years ...

  • Charli Toledo Hopeless

    Grace Williams

  • Choosing Sides

    Francine Pascal

    Friends and foes... No matter what Elizabeth does, she can't stop her best friend, Amy Sutton, from trying out for the Unicorn Club's cheering squad. Elizabeth is sure that the Unicorns are going to steal Amy away from her. Then Elizabeth learns tha...

  • 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...

  • Christmas Secrets

    Ann Schweninger

  • Circus!

    Mattie Lou O'Kelley

  • Commando Attack

    Alan Marks

  • The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

  • 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....

  • Crazy Vanilla

    Barbara Wersba

    A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Danger on the Sound Track

    Nancy K. Robinson

  • Daughters of the Law

    Sandy Asher

  • Doc

    Richard Graber

  • Double Trouble

    Yvonne Greene

  • 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...

  • Elephant Man

    Christine Sparks

    John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, th...

  • A Fall from Aloft

    Brian Burland

  • Family Ties

    Joe Claro

  • 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...

  • The Foundling Fox

    Irina Korschunow

  • Frieze

    Cecile Pineda

    This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the museâ€"artis...

  • The Gemini Plot

    Eric J. Collenette

  • Gilbert and the Birthday Cake

    Jack Harvey

  • Go Away, Stay Away

    Gail E. Haley

  • God Calling

    A.J. Russell

    The message of comfort and hope that breathes through the pages of God Calling was forged out of adversity, and as a result has touched the hearts of millions, making this one of the bestselling devotional books of all time....

  • The Golden Circle

    Ferne Margulies

  • The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick

    Kate McMullan

  • Gummi Bears Book of Yummies

    Patricia Lakin

  • 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...

  • Hey, Al

    Arthur Yorinks

    Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem?

    Thier room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless strugg...

  • Hide and Seek

    Ellen Devlin

  • Hooples' Horrible Holiday

    Stephen Manes

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway and The Hooples' Haunted House:

    Thanksgiving! Turkey! Pumpkin pie! Parades! Alvin Hoople and his family are off to his grandpar...

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

    Christine Arnothy

  • I Was a 15-Year-Old

    Patti Stren

  • In Country

    Bobbie Ann Mason

    In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been...

  • The Institution

    Walter Adamson

  • Ivy Larkin

    Mary Stolz

  • Jeeter, Mason and the Magic Headset

    Maggie Twohill

  • Judge Benjamin

    Judith Whitelock McInerney

  • The Judgment of Paris

    Gore Vidal

    Power, knowledge, and love are the temptations of three alluring women as Philip wanders from Paris to Rome. Yet his choice matters less than the act of choosing in this witty odyssey of self-discovery....

  • The Karamanov Equations

    Marshall Goldberg

  • King Rollo's Play

    David McKee

  • King's Ransom

    Victor Suthren

    BOOK TWO IN THE GALLANT SAGA

    The Spanish have sent La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, a bejeweled gold statuette, to France to seal their pact of loyalty and insure Spain's dominance on the high seas.

    But the statue has vanished, and Paul G...

  • 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...

  • Little Dracula's Christmas

    Martin Waddell

  • Long Distance

    Penelope Mortimer

  • Love on the Range

    Louise E. Powers

  • Loydene in Love

    Lael Littke

  • Miami Mice

    Scholastic Inc.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mrs. Tortino's Return to the Sun

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  • 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...

  • No Sanctuary

    Richard Aellen

  • Not This August

    C.M. Kornbluth

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