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New Books List: 485 titles

  • A Cat in the Wings

    Lydia Adamson

    Available Digitally for the First Time Murder takes a bow at the ballet, and cat-sitting sleuth Alice Nestleton pirouettes into danger… An actress led into a life of crime (sleuthing, that is) and cat-sitting, Alice Nestleton has returned to the ...

  • Every Day Doughnuts

    Patrice Adcroft

  • Six Deadly Demons

    John Albano

  • Mustang Sally

    Edward Allen

    A novel of sex, gambling, and higher education.

    Packard Schmidt is an appealing but seedy timeserver in the English department of a third-rate midwestern college. When his semester teaching the dismally undermotivated is done, Pack dashes off to V...

  • Murder under the Mistletoe: And Other Stories

    Margery Allingham

  • The Bus People

    Rachel Anderson

    Bertram drives his bus every morning and afternoon for a very special crew. Some don’t talk, some can’t walk; everyone is different in some way or another. But in spite of the barriers that set these passengers apart, each one has his own or her ...

  • Trail of Murder

    Christine Andreae

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN MURDER English professor Lee Squires signs on as camp cook for a wilderness outfitter hired by the wealthy and dysfunctional Strand family. As the group begins the week-long trail rides through the Bob Marshall Wilderness, patriarc...

  • Midnight Whispers

    V.C. Andrews

    HAPPY AND INNOCENT, DAWN'S DAUGHTER CHRISTIE HAS GROWN UP IN THE SAFEST, MOST LOVING OF HOMES... Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove...a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the man...

  • The Way of Love

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • My Sister's Boyfriend

    Katherine Applegate

    Justine Drew is a skeptic about romance. She's had only one love-a mysterious stranger on an amusement-park ride-and she never expects to see him again. Justine's beautiful younger sister is the opposite: She falls in love weekly. So when Skyle says ...

  • An Unlikely Lady

    Helen Argers

    HEATHER IN BLOOM... Returning from the wars, Viscount Beauforts was amazed to see a new beauty gracing the ton -- Miss Heather Thomasis, stepdaughter of a rough-talking cottager on his country estate. Could this sought-after London sophisticate re...

  • Where'd You Get the Gun, Billy?

    Fran Arrick

    When one of their classmates kills another with a gun, two high school students try to come to terms with the tragedy by examining the motives for the killing and by tracing the acquisition of the weapon. When 15-year-old Lisa is brutally shot to ...

  • Signs of Love

    Katherine Arthur

    Was she fated to love him? That was what Genie Compton began to wonder -- and fear -- when she met reclusive artist Byron de Stefano. Fear because her fiance's sudden death had left her wary of love, despite her sister's claims that a roma...

  • Aunt Dimity's Death

    Nancy Atherton

    Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was just a character in a bedtime story ... ... Until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading of the woman's will. Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable ...

  • Songs in the Whirlwind

    June Masters Bacher

    “Songs in the Whirlwind " the sequel to No Time for Tears. As the great depression wears on relentlessly, and the barren land buckles under the ravages of nature, Marvel’s hope of staying on the farm grows dim. The past, the future … everyt...

  • Their First Thanksgiving

    Stella Bagwell

    After all these years ... Olivia Westcott was home. Or at least that's how she felt when she arrived at the Gallaghers' farm for Thanksgiving. Olivia had left to pursue a career halfway around the world, yet she'd never forgotten the generosity of...

  • Loving Sarah

    Madeline Baker
    in

    A white woman learns the true meaning of Christmas from the Apache brave who has opened her heart to love....

  • Durango Gunfight

    Jack Ballas

  • Beyond the Sunrise

    Mary Balogh

    THEY PLAYED A GAME OF DECEPTION -- BUT THERE WAS NO DISGUISING THEIR DESIRE Jeanne Morrisette, the daughter of a French count, met Robert Blake when she was fifteen and he was the seventeen-year-old illegitimate son of an English lord. When they...

  • The Porcelain Madonna

    Mary Balogh
    in

    The holiday spirit comes alive in this wondrous new collection of five enchanting Christmas stories, written by some of the most beloved Regency authors. Filled with joyous Yuletide celebrations and heartwarming romance, this evocative, richly drawn ...

  • A Pressing Engagement

    Anne Barbour

    The False Fiancee The beautiful young Diana St. Aubin is at the mercy of Jared Talent, Earl of Burnleigh -- and he has none. The seductively handsome Earl has the power to send Diana to prison for a crime she did not commit unless she agrees to po...

  • Impossible Match

    Becky Barker

    TEMPTING FATE Chantel Cameron didn't object when her father hired Tyler Brogan. If the brusque, arrogant man had a head for business, then he belonged at Cameron Industries. But when Aaron Cameron asked his daughter to befriend the man, Chantel put ...

  • The Thief of Always

    Clive Barker

    Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles: a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... There is a price to be paid, of...

  • Black Egg of Atlantis

    Neal Barrett Jr.

  • Magic Child

    Kit Basom

  • The Noel Coward Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Joni's Magic

    Mary Lynn Baxter
    in

    A man and his dog - that was the sum of Boothe Larson's self-imposed exile deep in the Arkansas woods. All visitors were turned away from the lonely cabin. But then a little girl worked magic on him, and so did her mother, Lacy Madison. It was Christ...

  • How to Get Good Grades: and Still Keep Your Fabulous Reputation As a Cool Person

    Kris Bearss

    A practical, humorous, and easy-to-read guide--filled with hundreds of study tips from students across the country--to better grades. Topics include memory tips for total recall; how to read books; making the grade on tests; how to "figure out" teach...

  • Tory and Me and the Spirit of True Love

    Margaret Bechard

    As cousins Emily and Tory embark on their own romantic pursuits, they investigate their family history to discover a tintilating summer romance story about the mysterious Aunt Louisa and her marriage to the cranky old Uncle Arthur....

  • Just Between Us

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    THERE WAS TOO MUCH AT STAKE Monica Albright knew when she volunteered to be a Big Sister to fourteen-year-old, pregnant Ann Small that she had to give the motherless teenager support, love and most important, her undivided attention. But Richar...

  • Moonsong

    Constance Bennett

    A Destiny Of Pride -- And A Legacy Of Love Rayna and Meade -- He wanted to retire from the army and live a life of peace. But Rayna's bold spirit demanded more -- and her sensuous beauty tempted him to leave everything behind and follow her....

  • Rebel Harvest

    Pauline Bentley

    In a time of danger, Katherine Winters saw suspicion and malice everywhere. Even her younger brother had joined a violent band in the Jacobite Uprisings -- led by her betrothed, Viscount St. Clere, a man she barely knew and couldn't love. But then, w...

  • Christmas Angel

    Jo Beverley

    HE HAD NO INTEREST IN LOVE Leander Knollis, Earl of Charrington, was tired of gadding about the Continent on diplomatic missions. It was time he settled down in his family home with a wife at his side and enjoyed a proper English Christmas. But his ...

  • Reluctant Captive

    Helen Bianchin

    Second time around Kate vowed she would never see Nicolas Carvalho again--much less share his bed... or his name. But the powerful Sydney businessman was both ruthless and determined--and wasn't above resorting to blackmail to get what he want...

  • Denim and Lace

    Cheryl Biggs

    BIG SKY ROUNDUP A dyed-in-the-wool city girl, Shelby Hill was drifting from one boring job to another with no real goal in mind. Then out of the blue, she inherited a Montana dude ranch worth millions that catered to an exclusive list of clientele...

  • Temptation's Kiss

    Lisa Bingham

    Driven by the secrets of her past, prim and proper Chelsea Wickersham, English governess extraordinary, agreed to tutor the long-lost Sutherland heir. Expecting a boy, she was stunned to discover a man -- a heathen man -- a fact made clear when he ar...

  • The Unmaking

    Carol Birch

    Belle Rennock, her brother Hugh, and Lord Harlock of Ellwin are brought together by secret affairs of the heart and murderous acts of vengeance in the dark forest outside Caddenhope, an English village steeped in ritual and superstition...

  • Small Game

    John Blades

    "It was the neighborhood spook house, vacant and neglected for almost a year. We got it at a closeout price. But it was no bargain."Scott and Kathy Ryan don't have much choice. A third child has made their small city apartment burst its seams, and Sc...

  • The Snake River

    Win Blevins

    Those who followed the treacherous, sidewinding course of the Snake were carried to some of the most beautiful country on earth: the untouched Pacific Northwest. Flare O'Flaherty--son of Ireland, mountain trapper, and gambler--agrees to lead a group ...

  • A Walk Among the Tombstones

    Lawrence Block

    A ruthless, ingenious pair of entrepreneurial monsters is preying on the loved ones of those who live outside the law. Though he has no love for drug dealers and poison peddlers, ex-cop-turned-p.i. Matthew Scudder now must help them put two thrill-ki...

  • A Patchwork Holiday

    Claire Bocardo
    in

    Livvy Hardy left her career Army husband years ago; now she's looking forward to a quiet Christmas with her daughter and a chance to work on her perennial patchwork quilt. But when her daughter's widowed father-in-law comes for a holdiay visit, Livvy...

  • For All Time

    Parris Afton Bonds

    SHE WAS SWEPT BACK MORE THAN A CENTURY From the moment Stacie Brannigan discovered her great-grandmother's diary, she knew her life would never be the same. Haunted by visions of long ago, Stacie suddenly found herself drawn back in time to ninete...

  • Double Trouble

    Barbara Boswell

    DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE Kayla McClure was impersonating her twin sister Kristina again -- but wining and dining a state senator was not the ideal time to indulge in trading places! Things took a turn for the worse when Kayla found herself...

  • Her Heart's Desire

    Caroline Bourne
    in

    Susannah and Alan have been friends and neighbors all their lives, but when he comes home to Boston from the war in 1777 -- just in time for the holidays and the first magical snowfall -- a Christmas kiss opens the door to passion and undying love......

  • Beginning With Breakfast

    Kate Bradley

    Try, try again . . . At the rate Laura Fielding was going, she'd be back behind a desk in no time. Her new career as an artist wasn't exactly earning rave reviews--in fact, she hadn't sold a single hand-painted cat mug! How could she possibly rais...

  • Heart's Journey

    Emily Bradshaw

    BOUND BY PRINCIPLES ... Wealthy and willful Harriett Foster was a fiery disciple of Amelia Bloomer's -- determined to blaze a feminist trail from the Plains to the Pacific. When the wagon train master would not allow a pair of Boston ladies to trav...

  • Desperado

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Araminta Winthrop was bride to a man she had never desired. Then a black-clad bandit crashed, guns blazing, into her wedding reception -- and she became the captive of the notorious Rigo de Castillo. A handsome outlaw who ran with Pancho Villa, he br...

  • Dead Fall

    Dale Brandon

    Jim Cutter receives an urgent message to return to Wild Horse Valley to help his family defend their ranch against ruthless land grabber Sam Brundage. He arrives too late to save his father from being gunned down, but he manages to kill two of the bu...

  • The Christmas Crimes at Puzzle Manor

    Simon Brett

    Invited to the country hotel, Puzzel Manor, for Christmas weekend, Jack Tarrant and his lover, Maria, soon find themselves embroiled in a case of double murder in a work that encourages readers to follow the clues and solve the case...

  • Marriage Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    Hot Texas Nights... Innocent Carina Ramirez was the last person Cody Callaway expected to see stealing into his steamy Mexican hotel room in the middle of the night. The beautiful, tenderhearted siren had risked her neck for Cody, and now there w...

  • What Hearts

    Bruce Brooks

    On the Move STRAIGHT A's AND AN EMPTY HOUSE The day Asa wins school prizes, he loses a home, takes a night ride on the roller coaster, and finds out life doesn't run on tracks. THE VARIETY SHOW Asa's a lone operator, but he's needed on his fr...

  • Wildflower

    Virginia Brown

    SHE WAS AN OUTLAW ON THE RUN AND NO MAN COULD STOP HER, EXCEPT ONE... Colorado Kate -- as notorious for her lovers as she was for her robberies. No man had ever taken her prisoner and if she had her way, no one ever would. But when she found herse...

  • Show Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    With the date for the horse show drawing near, Stevie plans to win as many categories as possible, Carole vows to beat Cam Nelson, and Lisa is determined to ride Prancer....

  • Blue Sky Guy

    Carole Buck

    MR. NOVEMBER He: Kyle Gordon. Ex-astronaut, former fighter pilot. No woman will ever clip his wings. She: Susan Brooks. Widow, working mom. Stunned by her soaring passion for this arrogant, insufferable--sexy--man. It: Is an irresistible force d...

  • The Womanizer

    Bill Buford

    Richard Ford's womanizer is an insistently ordinary man - until he goes abroad. Paul Theroux's 'imaginary' young American novelist loses his self-control in London. William T. Vollmann, alone in the wilderness with Erica, risks losing his life for he...

  • The Spirit Ring

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Brought up by her widowed father, legendary creator of truly enchanted objets d'art, Fiametta was a good and faithful daughter...if perhaps a little wild. She wanted desperately to he more than her father's unpaid and untrained apprentice; she wanted...

  • Pay for Play

    Reed Bunzel

    ON THE CHARTS.. WITH A BULLET Ex-recording industry honcho Stuart Logan left the LA. music scene to play cocktail piano on Catalina Island-hoping to silence the demons of a violent and painful past with mind-numbing "old standards" and the occasio...

  • Fatal Ingredients

    Caroline Burnes

    Murder is hard to swallow On the first day of the cook-off Ginger Peko organized at the fabulous Sea Brim resort on Florida's gulf coast, one of the competing chefs swallowed a fatal forkful of Sacher torte. And Ginger had reason to believe that m...

  • Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance

    Charles Burns

    One of the decade's premiere illustrators presents three "Tales of Doomed Romance": Burn Again, a long strange tale of a hypnotic televangelist and his messianic cult; Marriage Made in Hell; and Dog Boy, the rollicking story of a young boy saved by t...

  • The Game

    A.S. Byatt

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels us to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination."Complex and thoughtful." -- The Times Literary SupplementWhen they were little girls, Ca...

  • Devon

    Cordia Byers

    SOCIETY MISS BY DAY... DARING THIEF BY NIGHT When Devon Mackinsey is saved from her life as a scullery maid by the titled grandmother she never knew, she blossoms into a spirited beauty, determined to save her ancestral home -- even if it means tu...

  • Carpool

    Mary Cahill

    "Entertaining...Jenny Jeade, the housewife heroine...careens through suburbia, one step ahead of a nervous breakdown."
    SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
    Today she's a hassled suburban Mom, but a few years ago, Jenny Meade worked as a pilot in a private d...

  • Ivory Lies

    Carol Cail

    NOW HIRING: TEMPORARY HUSBAND When April Parish walked into the employment agency, her request was simple. She wanted to hire a man to pose as her husband for the Christmas holidays. He had to be taller than his slender, six-foot boss, and it woul...

  • Substitute Husband

    Margaret Calaghan

    "You'll have to find yourself another rich mug to marry, because Danny's not interested any more." It was all Luke Sinclair's fault that her fiance had jilted her, Celina fumed. Danny would never have humiliated her if his despica...

  • The Greatest Gift

    Stella Cameron
    in

    With Christmas approaching, a kindly nanny and an impish little boy conspire to help a gentle Cornish maid win the heart of a lonely widower....

  • My Wild Rose

    Deborah Camp

    A former saloon singer turned Temperance activist, lovely Regina "Wild Irish" Rose has come to Eureka Springs, Arkansas -- where her hatchet-wielding mentor, Carry Nation, is on trial for destroying a local tavern. The prosecuting attorney is...

  • Only Make-Believe

    Bethany Campbell

    The Bride was pretending. The Groom was, too. The Wedding was real--the second time! Nikki didn't really want to impersonate Caressa, one of the world's most famous women, in a fake "celebrity wedding." But she'd go throug...

  • Boneyards

    R. Wright Campbell

  • Boneman

    Lisa Cantrell

    Phoenix City, like many cities, has problems -- crime, drugs, gang violence. Dallas Reid and his fellow police officers have their hands full, but they still resent the State Bureau of Investigation poking its nose into their business. Jackie Swan...

  • Best Destiny

    Diane Carey

    As James T. Kirk prepares to retire from a long and illustrious Starfleet career, events in a distant part of the Federation draw him back to a part of the galaxy he had last visited as a young man--a mysterious world called Faramond whose name takes...

  • Colors of Heaven

    Trevor Carolan

  • Cry Wolf

    Amanda Carpenter

    Big bad wolf Like the skilled predator of the hunt, Harper Beaumont cornered Nikki Ashton and offered her the biggest opportunity of her career. While his domineering manner left her cold, his demanding kiss warmed her considerably. Nikki knew ...

  • Conan the Savage

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    After a gambling dispute erupts into violence and death, Conan of Cimmeria is condemned to the hellish mine pits of Brythunia where no man has ever escaped--or survived. But Conan breaks free and disappears into the wilderness, far from civilization,...

  • North Sar

    Gerry Carroll

  • Christmas Belles

    Susan Carroll

    SCUNDRELS COME IN MANY GUISES -- EVEN WITH A HANDSOME PROFILE AND BRIGHT GOLD EPAULETS! It happened so suddenly: Papa's reappointment to His Majesty's Royal Navy, his sudden death, and then the shocking news that an unknown captain had b...

  • Casual Slaughters

    Robert A. Carter

    When the best-selling author of a celebrity expose is murdered and his lucrative manuscript disappears, Nicholas Barlow, an ebullient, witty, flamboyant Manhattan publisher, pumps the rich and famous on both coasts for clues. Reprint....

  • A Sky Full of Miracles

    Kim Cates

    Ariel Madigan... she was magic and moonbeams, and even straitlaced Damon couldn't help but be impressed. Especially since she'd enchanted his solemn children -- sad Sarah, stubborn Ellen and moody Moey -- and made them seem downright winsome ...

  • Are There Any Questions?

    Denys Cazet

  • The Death Guard

    Philip George Chadwick

    When a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage reduces whole cities and towns in Britain...

  • All My Dreams

    Victoria Chancellor

    All His Hopes... had been dashed when a wrongful conviction sent nobleman Andrew Leyton to America and the auction block. Yet, from the moment he clashed with Wynne Carr, Drew was captivated by the independent Virginia beauty who now owned him. -- ...

  • To Kill a Clown

    David Charnee

  • The Portable Beat Reader

    Ann Charters

    An anthology of writing from the Beat Generation features the surrealism of Burroughs, the poetry of Ginsberg, the zen prose of Gary Snyder, and essays, songs lyrics, letters, and memoirs by Cassady, Corso, Di Prima, Dylan, Baraka, and Kerouac. Repri...

  • Falling Stars

    Loretta Chase
    in

    An enchanting Regency Christmas novella about romance, forgiveness… and a second chance for a once-in-a-lifetime love. Ten years ago, dashing Marcus Greyson and naïve Christina Travers fell madly in love -- and parted in anger. Now, wiser and m...

  • The Prosecutor

    Thomas Chastain

    Manhattan District Attorney Anne Gillman feels the heat when a murderer is released because of lack of evidence, a homicide detective becomes romantically involved with a suspect, and a gang war erupts in the city. By the author of Pandora's Box....

  • Tender Journey

    Sally Cheney

    The Right Track On board a rattling train, hurtling headlong into the future, Julia Masonet was not looking back. Her girlish follies behind her, she knew her journey's end would be her life's beginning. Back there was her guardian, Richar...

  • I'll Be Home

    Judith Christenberry

    SNOWBOUND! When Lisa McGregor arrived at her mother's farm, she was happy to be home for the holidays. Christmas in the Texas Panhandle meant blustery winds, cozy fires, and an occasional snowflake. But this year the season was accompanied by a su...

  • Count Your Blessings

    Kathy Clark

    GOBBLE-GOBBLE? Luke Calloway was no chicken, but what could he really offer Darcy Carson -- an L.A. newshound hiding in the heartland of Iowa? Certainly not love! He already had more than his share of chicks -- fifty thousand of them, to be ex...

  • A Stranger Is Watching

    Mary Higgins Clark

    None of them could forget the tragic, brutal murder of Nina Peterson. Not her husband, Steve, ravaged by her loss and raging for revenge, nor their six-year-old son, Neil, a terrified witness to his mother's slaying. Not Sharon Martin, who loves th...

  • Women of Mystery I

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A diverse collection of stories of drama and suspense from writers such as Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky and Mary Higgins Clark. From cops to private eyes to ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations, these stories feature heroines who face...

  • Riffraff

    Judith Clarke

  • Death Chant

    Judd Cole

    Feared and despised by settlers for his native American heritage, a Cheyenne Indian returns to his people, but he must prove his loyalty to them before they will accept him as one of their own. Reissue....

  • Desert Pursuit

    Dale Colter

  • Dear Mom, Get Me out of Here!

    Ellen Conford

  • The Way of the Priests

    Robert J. Conley

    When a drought forces the Cherokee to the brink of annihilation, the people turn to their priests for salvation, but the tyrannical spiritual leaders are more concerned with preserving their own power than with helping their people....

  • A Gift of Love

    Phoebe Conn
    in

    In June, Belle Cassidy eloped with a daring Apache renegade, but by Christmas she fears that the best present she can give him is his freedom. Until she finds a way to show Coyote that the most precious gift in this season of hope and sharing is the ...

  • Blind Obsession

    K. Patrick Conner

  • Freshman Scandal

    Linda A. Cooney

    When Courtney's boss comes on too strong, she must choose: Keep her silence and her dream job or speak out and risk losing her job and her reputation. When Liza lands a TV role, it looks as if her showbiz triumph may destroy her first true love. ...

  • Freshman Christmas

    Linda A. Cooney

    Skiing snowmen in a frosty Montana playground. An old-fashioned Christmas with some wild new surprises! Join the girls of Freshman Dorm in a a winter paradise ripe for romance!...

  • One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    THE FAMILY THAT DIES TOGETHER... Everyone in the small, tightly knit community of Block Cat Ridge Texas, knows everyone else's business. And everyone is stunned by the slaying of the well-liked Lester family, minus its youngest member, in their own ...

  • Homecoming

    Matthew J. Costello

    American hostage Simon Farrel is coming home, to a world he thought he'd never see again. To a wife who had found a new lover. To sleepless nights of torment, haunted by the horrors he had witnessed.An ex-convict is coming home, to kill for the pleas...

  • The Hellion Bride

    Catherine Coulter

    Ryder Sherbrooke is a fun-loving rake with a secret. When he travels to Jamaica to solve the mystery of the supernatural goings-on at Sherbrooke sugar plantation, he finds another mystery as well - a sophisticated nineteen-year-old girl, Sophia Stant...

  • Harvest of Blood

    Vincent Courtney

    Miami detective Christopher Blaze tracks a fellow detective involved in the Central American drug trade and becomes locked in a struggle with a rampaging vampire, whose savagery calls forth Blaze's own guilty lust for blood. Original....

  • A Christmas Sampler

    E.A. Crawford

  • Scimitar

    Herbert Crowder

    An American agent investigating the hijacking of an East Wind ballistic missile and his Israeli wife, who is busy tracing the origin of a gold scimitar talisman, soon realize that their missions are dangerously intermeshed. Reprint....

  • The Radiant Dragon

    Elaine Cunningham

  • Seasons of the Heart

    Marilyn Cunningham

    FORBIDDEN LOVE As the Idaho valley's new schoolmarm, Jessica Whittaker never expected to have a young man her own age as a student. But with his thirst for the world, Mark Hardy was determined to learn everything he could--including how to win Jes...

  • Lily and the Lion

    Emily Dalton

    "THE LION'S" ROAR WAS WORSE THAN HIS BITE No one could doubt that Miss Lily Clarke was a vicar's daughter. So angelic was she, charitable and compassionate, that all God's creatures earned and deserved her boundless devotion. ...

  • Trick Shooter

    Kit Dalton

    To prove his old friend's innocence in a counterfeiting scheme, buckskin Lee Morgan, tracing the phony money to a wild west show, goes undercover as an assistant to a buxom flame-haired sharpshooter who sets her sights on him. Original....

  • Pieces of Eight

    Sean Dalton

    A swashbuckling pirate adventure in the time travel series from the “masterful” national bestselling author of the Pearls and the Crown novels (Extrapolations).   In his attempt to return to the twenty-sixth century, historian and time trave...

  • Sweet Dreams

    Kate Daniel

    As, night after night, she dreams of the blaze that killed her parents, Jan suspects that someone murdered her parents and is soon drawn in her sleep to the sites of a series of midnight fires around town. Original....

  • Unicorns II

    Jack Dann

  • The Captured Bride of Aspenwood

    Peggy Darty

    "You're staying at Aspenwood? But there's a curse on that house!" Raised in an orphanage where she learned to bake the most delicious cakes in Colorado, delicately lovely Elizabeth Blake was grateful for the chance to put her skill...

  • Tiger's Den

    Andrea Davidson

    Stranger in a strange land Louisiana Bond could cut a deal or sink an oil well better than anyone in Texas. But she was out of her element in the steamy streets of Bangkok. To find her missing brother, Louisiana was led to Thailand and to a den...

  • Mind Light

    Margaret Davis

    Disheveled, disoriented, and ill, Greg Lukas didn't look like much of a pilot. But the Michaelsons, a family of interstellar traders, had to hire another crew member or lose the ship that was their livelihood. So they took Lukas on temporarily, assum...

  • Web of Fate

    Helena Dawson

    He'd simply entrapped her! Kate Penwarden was determined to enjoy her trip to Greece -- alone! The last thing she wanted was a holiday romance. She was still nursing a bruised ego courtesy of her former fiance. And then Kate met devastating...

  • The Virago Book of Wicked Verse

    Jill Dawson

    Feisty, bawdy, erotic, and irreverent, The Virago Book of Wicked Verse is a telling commentary on women's ability to transform poetry into a medium of subversiveness. There are jibes at hypocrisy and prejudice, sexiness and sauciness, and a riotous o...

  • Peculiar People

    Jan De Hartog

    As the Quakers struggle to maintain their nonviolent way of life on the eve of the Civil War, preacher Mordecai Monk and Lydia Best share the exile of the Shawnee, who are being evicted from their ancient lands...

  • Castle Spellbound

    John DeChancie

    When a malfunction in the magical defense system of Lord Incarnadine's Castle Perilous strikes during the lord's party, gladiators, thieves, painted ladies, and hairy beasts find themselves spinning through space. Original....

  • The General's Daughter

    Nelson DeMille

    Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the...

  • A Gift of the Heart

    Georgina Devon
    in

    Her father's death left Lavinia Russell penniless and alone just before Christmas...unless the rakish Marquis of Davenport would come to her aid and accept her offer to be his mistress....

  • The Dragon at War

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Gordon R. Dickson continues his thrilling saga--the tale of a twentieth-century American transformed into a Dragon Knight and transported into a fantastic medieval adventure! Serpent or dragon--which is the stronger? Raised from the deep and ready...

  • Drifter's War

    William C. Dietz

    BIG MONEY: A HIGH-TECH DRIFT SHIP WORTH ABOUT A BILLION CREDITS. A billion credits could leave smuggler Pik Lando set for life. It could also set him up for a particularly painful death. BIG GUNS. ALIEN WAR ARE SHATTERS THE GALACTIC EMPIRE. ...

  • Mars Prime

    William C. Dietz

    Ace reporter Rex Corvan is thrilled to be accompanying the second major colonization mission to Mars, but his excitement diminishes when a serial killer begins stalking the colonists while they are still en route. Original....

  • Mayhem in Motion

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Rude Boys

    Gaylord Dold

    While living in London, Roberts does “off the books” work for a lawyer named Hillary Root. When Root’s half-brother is murdered in a London hospital bed, Roberts must travel to Kingston, Jamaica to find the murderer.Gaylord Dold is the author o...

  • Evil Time

    P.S. Donoghue

  • Fallway

    Paula E. Downing

    Sent into battle against the alien intruders inhabiting the asteroid she calls home, Jahnel, a human adopted by her present family, discovers that the aliens she has been taught to hate are human. Original....

  • High Strangeness

    Alison Drake

    THE SUSPECT IN A DOUBLE MURDER HAS AN ALIBI THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD. All is not well at the Wellness Center, an exclusive psychiatric clinic on Florida's mostly placid Tango Key. An orderly and a staff psychiatrist have been brutally murdered --...

  • Face-Off

    Stacy Drumtra

    When Brad's twin brother, T.J., the apple of their father's eye, transfers from his fancy prep school and into Brad's public school, Brad must contend with T.J.'s growing popularity as the school's new star hockey player. Original....

  • A Rebel Christmas

    Kathleen Drymon
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    By the luck of the draw, Sergeant Seth Carlton is assigned to spend Christmas Day, 1864, with the Collier family. Little does he expect to fall in love with the eldest Collier daughter, Shelley Lynn -- a staunch Confederate who would never dream of g...

  • Borrowed Lives

    Laramie Dunaway

    Luna Devon is jealous. While her life is dull, her best friend Wren Caldwell has a life to die for, a life full of men. When Wren tragically dies, Luna is offered a daring, naughty opportunity - to reinvent herself as Wren....

  • My Lord Winter

    Carola Dunn

    A WINTER'S THAW COULD BE A DANGEROUS THING After the coach in which she was riding to London broke down, Fate led Lady Jane Brooke to seek shelter at the nearest house. She was reluctantly admitted by the Earl of Wintringham, most often ca...

  • This Time Forever

    Kathleen Eagle

    EVEN SHATTERED HEARTS CAN CAPTURE A DREAM Seeking refuge in a world not her own, a beautiful nurse follows her conscience to the reservation of the Lakota Sioux -- hoping to heal the wounds of her ravaged heart. Condemned for a crime he did not co...

  • A New Life of Her Own

    Marjorie Eatock
    in

    For the first time ever, Susan Gray's children and grandchildren aren't coming home for Christmas. Undaunted, she plans a party and invites every 'stray' she knows - and some she doesn't. Including a surprise visitor who reminds her that Christmas is...

  • Domes of Fire

    David Eddings

    JEWEL OE THE EAST Danger stalked Queen Ehlana's realm. It began with peasants whispering that the bloody heroes of old would rise again. Soon outlaw bands were ravaging the hill country, while the Trolls disappeared from their icy northern haunts-...

  • The Malloreon

    David Eddings

  • Boom Town

    Josh Edwards

    Lodestone prides itself on being the fastest-growing town in Colorado, but John Stone knows a con game when he sees one. And this is a con the size of the Rockies. The low-down varmints running the scam don’t want to see him meddling -- they’d ra...

  • Lone Star and the Aztec Treasure

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track the bloody trail of a band of greedy gold thieves!Out tracking down a cougar who has been making meals out of Jessie's herds, the Lone Star duo picks up the scent of some gunslinging profiteers out to rape the holy Chuacas Canyon ...

  • A Rare Breed

    Mary Tate Engels

    "GOING HOLLYWOOD" Brit Bailey couldn't believe her good luck when she learned her great-grandmother's autobiography had been bought for a big-budget movie. The gritty story of a woman's struggle to raise a family in the Old Wes...

  • Longarm and the Fool Killer

    Tabor Evans

    DEADLY LEGEND OR LIVING KILLER? There's a gunman on a rampage, and Longarm's his next target when he troubleshoots for a military detail through El Paso. Trouble is, this madman's hard to meet face to face.... The natives call him the Fool Killer--a...

  • One Cold Night

    Claire Ewart

  • Harmonies of The'Net

    Jane S. Fancher

    When the database on which human society depends begins mysteriously to implode, the finger of causality points directly to HuteNamid, an idyllic planet on the very edge of human-occupied space.

    The man pointing the finger is Stephen Ridenour,...

  • Christmas Rose

    Marjorie Farrell
    in

    The holiday spirit comes alive in this wondrous new collection of five enchanting Christmas stories, written by some of the most beloved Regency authors. Filled with joyous Yuletide celebrations and heartwarming romance, this evocative, richly drawn ...

  • The King's Buccaneer

    Raymond E. Feist

    DARK FORCES AND DARKER DEEDS Long recovered from the ravages of the Riftwar, the land and people of the Kingdom of the Isles thrive. Nicholas, youngest son of Prince Arutha, is intelligent and gifted but vastly inexperienced. In hopes of hardening...

  • The Night Santa Claus Returned

    Marie Ferrarella
    in

    Laura Lekawski didn't believe in Santa Claus and neither did her son Robbie...until they met him - or at least the Santa in Mattingly's Department Store. He was the kind of Santa who could make Christmas wishes come true for a sad little boy. And mak...

  • Sleeping With the Devil

    Suzanne Finstad

    An account of the murder of former beauty queen Barbara Piotrowski describes how her fitness junkie, Texas millionaire husband harassed his wife after she left him and then hired a gunman to kill her. Reprint....

  • Where's Kevin?

    Frank Fitzgerald

  • Hero

    Lenore Fleischer

    A two-bit con man, the first to arrive at the site of a plane crash, rescues a number of passengers and then slips away without being identified, and an imposter later steps foreward claiming to be the hero...

  • The Scandalous Wager

    Olivia Fontayne

    LOVE WAS IN THE CARDS... Gentlemen usually play cards to win, but Duvalier was playing to lose. In a twist on the tradition game, he and his cohorts agreed to unburden themselves of their unwanted possessions instead of gambling for gain. And ...

  • Borrowed Time

    Regan Forest

    YEARS AGO, SARAH HAD TEMPORARILY FALLEN THROUGH TIME -- TO TOMBSTONE 1882! Sarah had believed it a dream, until she arrived in Tombstone to write a screenplay about the town's infamous bordello. Flashes of Tombstone 1882 overwhelmed her -- t...

  • Night of the Panther

    Suzanne Forster

    JOHNNY--A Charismatic Renegade with a Cause... He was controversial, celebrated, a lawyer whose killer instincts and Irish-Apache heritage made him a star but Johnny Starhawk had never forgotten the woman who'd betrayed him when he was a boy--and ne...

  • Love in Torment

    Natalie Fox

    MAN FROM HER PAST. "Am I so abhorrent to you?" Felipe smiled, coldly. "Not for long, querida; like ours doesn't dim with time. I'll have you begging for it before I've finished with you." Gemma had never forgiven Felipe Sa...

  • Comrade Charlie

    Brian Freemantle

    Trapped at a desk job, Charlie Muffin uncovers a deadly KGB plot

    Charlie Muffin is too good an agent to be working a desk, but after a bust-up with his new director, he has been relegated to clerk work. Among the heaps of papers, though, Ch...

  • Relics

    Michael Jan Friedman

    In the tradition of UNIFICATION, here is the story that fans of the original STAR TREK series and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION have been clamoring for--Montgomery Scott's return to the STAR TREK universe and his encounter with Captain Picard and th...

  • Second Chance

    Patricia Gaffney
    in

    Five holiday stories played out in Victorian England or America, reflect the old-fashioned romantic charm of a popular era. Delightfully enchanting and heartwarming, this exquisite collection can be enjoyed all year round....

  • String of Miracles

    Sally Garrett

    SHE'D SAVED HERSELF FOR HIM While she earned her law degree and then joined a big firm, a lot of slick young lawyers made a play for Nancy Prentice. But she had her sights set on a real man, the man who'd inspired her: Mark Bradford. When she ...

  • The Fire-Raiser

    Maurice Gee

    The night Dargie's stables burns down, Kitty Wix is knocked tumbling to the ground by strange, loping man fleeing the scene. Who is the fire-raiser who has been terrorizing the small town? Kitty and her friend Irene begin to have their suspicions as ...

  • Who's on First?

    Mark Geller

  • Three Strikes, You're Dead

    Michael R. Geller

    Hired to do a background check on Billie Howlett, the college boy the Mets are willing to pay a million bucks to sign, Slots Resnick finds his routine check complicated by a murder involving Billie's favorite bat as a weapon....

  • Landfall

    Tony Gibbs

    Charter boat captain Gillian Verdean is suspicious of his latest passenger--a self-proclaimed terrorist hunter--but when U.S. Intelligence gets involved, the stakes are raised considerably to include a possible terrorist attack on a cruise ship. 15,0...

  • 'Tis the Season

    Mel Gilden

  • Bad Company

    Theresa Gladden

    JAKE -- A Magnificent Dark Angel Ready to Fulfill All Her Fantasies... He spotted her standing across the casino, a temptress in a dress that said come and get me, and Jake Madison felt a primitive recognition that he must possess her! Nila Sheph...

  • The Great Science Fair Disaster

    Martyn Godfrey

    The science fair just exploded! "My father walked into my seventh-grade classroom, looked around, and smiled. Oh, no, I thought. He's going to do it again." "My father" is Mr. Wilder, Marcie Wilder's father, who is also principal of her schoo...

  • Deadly Medicine

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    It was more than sex. It was more than murder. It seemed clear that the savagely slain young women were victims of a hideously twisted serial killer. Their throats bore the teeth marks of his kiss of death bestowed before he took their lives. But eve...

  • The Middle Of Somewhere

    Sheila Gordon

    When the government threatens to send bulldozers to destroy the homes in her village to make way for a new white settlement, Rebecca, along with the other villagers, decides to take a stand and save her home. Reprint....

  • I, Werewolf

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

  • Ellie's Birthstone Ring

    Beatrice Gormley

  • Wanted: UFO

    Beatrice Gormley

  • Friends True and Periwinkle Blue

    Marilyn Gould

    Close friends with seemingly nothing in common, super-achiever Enid, athletic Maxine, and new kid in town Maris decide to tell each other their deepest secrets and discover that each one has something to hide....

  • Death Count

    L.A. Graf

    The disappearance of Andorian scientific genius Muav Haslev fuels tensions between the Orions and Andorians--tensions that come dangerously close to full scale war. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM are called to Starbase Sigma 1, ...

  • A Woman's Love

    Grace Green

    "I'm not a child!" Briony Campbell was tired of being patted on the head and told to go to bed. She was also tired of being given frilly little-girl dresses with puffed sleeves. Didn't people realize she was now a grown woman, with ...

  • The Tom Clancy Companion

    Martin H. Greenberg

    An in-depth look at the work of the author of The Hunt for Red October presents an interview with Clancy as he discusses the CIA, the downfall of the Soviet Union, U.S. military spending, and more; an alphabetical guide to his characters; and...

  • Christmas Bestiary with R. M. Greenberg

    Rosalind M. Greenberg

  • Rebel Enchantress

    Leigh Greenwood

    SHE WOULD DISGUISE HERSELF Only one thing stood between Delilah Trowbridge and starvation. That was Nathan Trent, the British merchant to whom every farmer in her part of Massachusetts owed money. So Delilah went to work off her family's debt a...

  • It's Only Goodbye

    Virginia T. Gross

  • A Rock and a Hard Place

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    BUSINESS...OR PLEASURE? If Amanda Mendenhall's new business partner thought he could worm himself into her personal life, he could pack up that briefcase and head to the elevators. She wasn't about to lose her head or her heart again -- es...

  • A Feast of Murder

    Jane Haddam

    Invited on Wall Street wizard Jonathan Baird's boat to help celebrate Baird's release from prison for insider trading, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is shocked to disover that strychnine is on the ship's menu. Original....

  • A Stillness in Bethlehem

    Jane Haddam

    It's Christmastime in Bethlehem, Vermont, but there's no deep and dreamless sleep for this little town. Instead, everyone's getting ready to stage the annual Nativity play, the town's one tourist attraction and economic mainstay. Everyone except outs...

  • Murder on the Menu

    Peter Haining

    Fatal food and drink served with an insidious smile to unsuspecting husbands, dinner guests, and gourmands feature in a banquet of stories from the golden age of crime fiction by P. D. James, Georges Simenon, Michael Gilbert, and others....

  • Murder at Drury Lane

    Robert Lee Hall

    While visiting London's Drury Lane Theatre, Benjamin Franklin investigates suspicious incidents in the playhouse, including the death of a heckler. By the author of Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case. Reprint....

  • Father Figure

    Celeste Hamilton

    Police lieutenant Lisa Talbot had only thought of her son when she'd been shot in the line of duty. She was a single mother first, a cop second and she had to get on with her life. Yet how could she do that when the man she loved blamed himself for t...

  • Savage Obsession

    Diana Hamilton

    A second baby -- a second chance? She'd been crazy to marry Charles Savage in the first place! And now, Beth was convinced that nothing -- least of all her -- would keep Charles from the woman he really loved. Beth's marriage to Charles...

  • The House Party

    Violet Hamilton
    in

    A Christmas house party had seemed just the thing, until murder entered the scene. Now Arabella Stapleton was worried about losing her heart...and her life!...

  • Island of Love

    Rosemary Hammond

    She wasn't his type! The endless string of tall blondes that trooped in and out of Anne's boss's office was clear evidence of that. He'd never come remotely close to making a pass at her -- never even looked at her as though she w...

  • Fighting Strength

    Lynn Hampton

    Recounting her experiences in Vietnam, a former combat nurse describes the misery she encountered while working at the evacuation hospitals at Tuy Hoa and Long Binh and the bureaucracy of the Army. Original....

  • Alvin's Famous No-Horse

    William Harry Harding

  • Tiffany, The Disaster

    Janice Harrell

    THAT GIRL Paul Fenner knows Tiffany is a real pain the moment he lays eyes on her. The problem is that everyone expects them to be friends do, just because they're both adopted. But how can Paul like someone who sneaks into his mother's room and rea...

  • A Bone to Pick

    Charlaine Harris

    LAST REMAINS Had sweet, fragile, silver-haired Jane Engle, school librarian and churchgoer, murdered someone and put the victim's skull in her window seat? Did Aurora Teagarden, fellow librarian and astonished beneficiary of Jane's estate ...

  • Christmas Stars

    David G. Hartwell


    Christmas is a time for miracle, scientific and otherwise, and for amazing surprises that can only occur at this very special time of the year. But what marvels will the holidays bring to the far future--and alien worlds light-years from the Nort...

  • Midnight Rose

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    LEONA Adored and protected by her father and nine older brothers, the high-spirited beauty had always chafed beneath their loving domination. An arranged marriage with a total stranger was the last thing she'd tolerate now, even if that stranger was...

  • A Christmas Angel

    Robin Lee Hatcher
    in

    A motherless little girl's wish for a Christmas angel comes true with the arrival of a beautiful stranger at her father's Idaho farm....

  • Sam's Crossing

    Tommy Hays

    Life changes suddenly for Kate, who works in an Atlanta hospital and wants a baby, and Sam, who works in a local book store and believes he has made a mess of life, when Kate moves out because Sam cannot commit...

  • A Seasonal Stratagem

    Sandra Heath
    in

    The holiday spirit comes alive in this wondrous new collection of five enchanting Christmas stories, written by some of the most beloved Regency authors. Filled with joyous Yuletide celebrations and heartwarming romance, this evocative, richly drawn ...

  • The Playroom

    Frances Hegarty

    Architect David Allendale has made a showplace of his elegant home near Hyde Park; his charming wife Katherine is the centerpiece of his creation. Only their daughter Jeanetta, an impulsive four-year-old, disrupts his ideal of perfect harmony. David ...

  • Fortune and Folly

    Beth Henderson

    FAMILY FORTUNE When Janelle Ingraham's tycoon uncle died and left her his vast fortune, Jan was stunned. At first she didn't know what to do with the money but then she had a brainstorm. As a freelance craftswoman used to counting every la...

  • Take Care of My Girl

    Patricia Hermes

  • The Homecoming

    Norah Hess
    in

    An innocent bride finds special joy in the Christmas homecoming of a husband who married her on the rebound, then marched away from their Kentucky homestead to fight for his country's independence....

  • Luciano's Luck

    Jack Higgins

    1943. A daring gamble to win the war on the Italian front. It meant bringing "Lucky" Luciano, king of the American underworld, face-to-face with his Italian counterpart. The American invasion of Sicily depended on the out-come-on the clash of two Maf...

  • Erotica

    Charlotte Hill

    This illustrated anthology is a thoughtfully arranged and carefully presented collection of the very best examples of sexual art and literature. It spans 2,000 years - from classical Rome and the ancient East to the novels of D.H. Lawrence and Henry ...