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  • Grassy Knoll

    Poul Anderson

    The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for volunt...

  • Hazel Rye

    Vera Cleaver

    An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove....

  • Shaggy Dog's Christmas

    Don Charles

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Ellen Appleby

  • Ready... Set... Robot

    Lillian Hoban

  • Homework Caper

    Joan Lexau

  • Nata

    Helen V. Griffith

    K-Gr 2 ``Nata was usually good, but one June day she wasn't.'' She tangled a spider's web, disturbed the bees, tied a knot in the cricket's feelers and was generally unpleasant to all of the garden creatures. Only the toad knows what is the matter wi...

  • Borderline

    Janette Turner Hospital

    By chance, Felicity, a Boston art gallery director, and Gus, a Canadian insurance salesman, witness the arrest of Salvadorean refugees trying to enter Canada, and decide to help an alien missed by the custom inspectors...

  • Baaa

    David MacAulay

    After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well....

  • Darkhold

    Jerry Brown

  • Wild Bill's Ghost

    J.R. Roberts

    The rumors are flying in Leadville -- Hickok is still alive! The way the story goes, somebody else, and not Wild Bill, was killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood. Clint Adams isn't one to put much stock in rumors ... but he's never actually seen Bill's...

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine War

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSICA STARBUCK: WANTED FOR LARCENY Passing herself off as Jessica Starbuck, a scheming cartel woman buys up dozens of mining claims in California's Mother Lode -- paying for them with counterfeit bank drafts and leaving the real Jessie holding the...

  • Crossfire Country

    Roy Lebeau

    Lee Morgan, with the help of a lovely young Ojibway squaw, sets out to avenge the death of Canadian land baron Matthew Dowd--a mission that leads him to Dowd's former partner, who is determined to stop Lee dead in his tracks. Original....

  • Longarm in the Bitterroots

    Tabor Evans

    THE MONTANA ORDEAL No one could be that lucky in gambling. Yet Weeping Snakes won every time, claiming guidance from the spirits. When the impoverished ranchers and miners in Bitterroots, Montana, try to stop his winning streak, Weeping Snakes goe...

  • Rebel

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    She lived and loved with passion -- but only on her terms! "AIN'T SHE SOMETHING!" the soldiers cried as they watched her ride the huge stallion into the raging river...to save a drowning man. She was Marsh Creighton, a ravishing teen...

  • Love Among the Allies

    Margot Arnold

  • Another Dawn

    Sandra Brown

    Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost... Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake ...

  • Sunlight and Silver

    Kelly Adams

    When a nearly naked stranger steps into her cabin, riverboat pilot Jacy Jones assumes he's a "birthday present" ... and boldly asks to unwrap him! Though Jacy's convinced she doesn't need a man, Noah Logan's audacious kiss arouses her trembling aware...

  • Savage Storm

    Phoebe Conn

    SHE DREAMED OF A HUSBAND Luscious Gabrielle had lost everything she had in Kansas City. Now all she wanted was to survive the Oregon Trail and start a new life as a mail order bride. Then she met ruggedly handsome Jason Royal, and the auburn-hair...

  • Fortune's Darling

    Frances Davies

    Dazzling Andrew Wiswood--alias "Louisa May Lustleigh," illustrious romance author--coolly uses women as stimuli for his torrid writing. Literary agent Joanna Simmons abhors a man for whom females are merely emotional fodder. But to secure his shamele...

  • Wild Flame

    Gina Delaney

    NEW LOVE She had been born and reared a gentle English lass. Yet once seventeen-year-old Milly set foot on the vast Australian farm, she had the Outback in her blood. Young and innocent, she dreamed of love's sweet awakening. But she couldn't tame...

  • The Wild Rose

    Rene J. Garrod

    SECRET DESIRES California's gold rush had lured Miranda Austen and her father all the way from London. But when her father lost his life in the harsh wilderness, the well-bred English beauty was suddenly alone in the uncivilized American West. Onl...

  • Pink Satin

    Jeanne Grant

    Self-conscious about her voluptuous figure, Greer Lothrop feels safer offering men chicken soup and companionship than arousing their impassioned longings. But when a crank phone caller leaves her quaking, she seeks comfort from captivating Ryan McCu...

  • Love Fire

    Deana James

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Lovely Princess Joanna couldn't stop the tumultuous emotions that surged through her heart when she first saw the knight Geoffrey Fitzjean. His sculpted face and virile frame made her ache to her very core. His golden hair and slate...

  • Forbidden Dream

    Karen Keast

    Hearing Cade Sterling's honeyed gravel voice hurls the past at Sarah Braden. Cade ... her ex-husband's brother, who'd been at her side when she needed help most. His hand injured, he now needs her help on his nationally syndicated comic strip. So why...

  • Love With a Proper Stranger

    Christa Merlin

    From the first, their lips, eyes, and words speak utter infatuation. Though Any a Meredith's not the kind of woman to picnic with a stranger and make love in the crumbs, with Brady Durant she can hardly hold back. His slightest touch inspires intense...

  • False Angel

    Edith Layton

    A prudent young beauty vows never to let England's most notorious rake cast his spell over her THE LIBERTINE LORD...AND THE LADY Lord Joscelin Kidd, Marquess of Severne, was the handsomest and most charming nobleman in London--and the most noto...

  • Shadowtide

    Dianne Price

    "She was the bride of a stranger--caught in a whirlpool of terror!" Alone in the world, Jenna had little choice but to accept Brennan Savage's unexpected proposal. Son starkly beautiful Cape Savage she hoped to find a home and a loving...

  • Rosalind

    Clarice Peters

    "YOU CAN'T BE THINKING OF MARRIAGE FOR THE GIRL. SHE'S JUST A CHILD!" Rosalind McHenry's outrage knows no bounds when her wastrel brother announces a dubious design: he intends to marry off his daughter, Felicity, a mere school...

  • Stalk a Stranger

    Rachel Scott

    His passion brought a promise of love...darkened by a shadow of suspicion. LOVE IN THE SHADOWS The man in the red Porsche was obviously in trouble, but Bianca knew she'd be taking a dangerous chance if she went to his aid...alone in the mid...

  • Savage Kiss

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    SHE SAVED HIS LIFE WITH A KISS -- THEN SURRENDERED HER HEART TO FORBIDDEN SPLENDOR! FORBIDDEN RAPTURE The caress of the frontier wind and the kiss of the Western sun had always been enough for ebony-haired Falling Water. Then she stumbled across ...

  • Journey to Love

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    A DANGEROUS JOURNEY KINDLED THEIR LOVE AND THREATENED TO SEPARATE THEM FOREVER! On the day of Gabrielle's betrothal to the wealthy, older Louis Chauvin, English soldiers invaded her French Canadian village. Taken from her fiance, forced aboard...

  • Lucky in Love

    Jacqueline Topaz

    Devil-may-care Patti Lyon is a gambler at heart, cheerfully making ends meet by winning outlandish sweepstakes and wacky TV game shows. Stunning but straitlaced civic leader Alex Greene represents everything she rebels against--and he staunchly oppos...

  • Affairs of Love

    Nicola Thorne

    About two sisters, one a doctor, the other an actress, and their attempts to establish themselves in difficult and controversial professions at the end of the nineteenth century....

  • Blue Heron

    Philip Ross

    To save the life of a child, James Marley searches desperately for the elusive, former radical Sarah Kleinhagen, responsible for the bombing of a government facility, and discovers that they are both being stalked by a ruthless killer...

  • Dirty War

    Don Pendleton

    IT WAS A WAR THAT ATE MEN'S SOULS Five men break all the rules to fight the Vietnam War according to their own moral vision. To these five Conghunting, mud-eating dog soldiers, rank means nothing. Mack Bolan, Gunsmoke Harrington, Whispering Dea...

  • Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer

    William J. Watkins

    Uwalk Wenn, a rebel agent, and the centrifugal rickshaw dancers join forces with charismatic rebel leader Roger Count Aerowaffen to wrest control of the Grand Sphere from the repressive LeGrange Corporation...

  • Lifeburst

    Jack Williamson

    Somewhere, eons past, the seekers had begun as weapons—cyborg war machines. nuclear explosions, and powerful lasers meant little to them, for each was larger than 10 battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive...

  • Fanglith

    John Dalmas

    Two political refugees are pursued by the Thought-Police and the violent warriors of eleventh-century Earth after they are trapped on a barbaric planet with only a small computer and a telepathic wolf to help them...

  • Warlock

    Glen Cook

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • The Yngling

    John Dalmas

  • Under Plum Lake

    Lionel Davidson

    A young boy swimming off the cliffs of Cornwall discovers a cave, the entrance to a wonderful new world of giant, long-living people, fish that swim in the air, flower-flavored water, and varying time patterns...

  • Freedom Beach

    James Patrick Kelly

  • Skull Gate

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    The fierce swordfighter Frost has lost her supernatural powers and must travel to the pit of hell and back in order to save herself and the kingdom. Doing battle with all the forces of Hades: demons, sorcerers, vicious spiders, and the most vile o...

  • Peace Company

    Roland J. Green

    If you seek peace -- prepare for war A rule as true in the 24th Century as it is today. When 75 planets from savage tribes to outlaw tyrannies to star-spanning mega-powers -- totter on the brink of the hell that began the day Earth destroyed itsel...

  • The Wanderer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • Gilgamesh the King

    Robert Silverberg

    A thrilling retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh from the Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning author of Lord Valentine’s Castle.
     Gilgamesh’s appetite for wine, women, and warfare is insatiable. As the King of Uruk...

  • Needle in a Timestack

    Robert Silverberg

    A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who “seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals” (The Washington Post Book World).  Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best -- in...

  • Race Against Time

    Piers Anthony

    John Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. Reissue....

  • A Perfect Vision

    Monica Barrie

    Architect Lea Graham tumbled down the hillside of her personal paradise, a stretch of land in New Mexico that she planned to develop into a model community. Waiting at the bottom of the hill was Darren Laird, a fiery artist who would fight anyone ...

  • Odds Against Tomorrow

    Patti Beckman

    What happens when a world-famous French ladies' man marries a young woman determined to become queen of the Sport of Kings? Nikki Cameron found out when she became Mrs. Jacques Trenchard at the tender age of twenty -- it meant someone had to g...

  • False Impressions

    Ariel Berk

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN BE FALSE... Audrey adjusted her startlingly skimpy uniform and prepared for her first night waitressing at the Angel Club. What was a mild-mannered anthropology teacher doing in this ridiculous getup? Good question. Her publi...

  • Midsummer Midnight

    Parris Afton Bonds

    IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM Damon Demetrios temporarily "kidnapped" Sigourney Hamilton, a journalist whose by-line drew as much interest as her subjects. He wanted her to cover the Macedonian struggle for freedom, but she was afraid to become involved,...

  • Through Eyes of Love

    Pamela Browning

    For Cassie Muldoon, life itself was an act of courage John Howard's search for Cassie led him to Flat Top Mountain in North Carolina--to a small cabin inhabited by a woman as shy and lovely as a doe. People traveled miles for Cassie's soothing tea...

  • Love Beyond Question

    Alicia Brandon

    Love was so easy when they first met The Tulsa nursery often hired prisoners on the work-release program, so nursery manager France Marriott was unfettered by fear or suspicion. She didn't know what Stephen Foley had done -- she only knew that...

  • Partners for Life

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE'D NEVER MET SUCH A ZANY MAN When Nick Hawthorne burst into the ladies' room and asked her to dance, Laura Jensen knew her life was about to take a dramatic turn. Nick was a golf pro with a vision of health for the world -- personali...

  • Southern Fire

    Jo Calloway

    The chance chance to spend a summer ghostwriting the history of a small Mississippi town for two elderly belles was the answer to Barbara Whitney's prayers. Putting a hectic year of teaching behind her, she anticipated a period of peace and grace. Bu...

  • Moontide

    Stella Cameron

    FATE BESTOWED THEM WITH A SECOND CHANCE Two years ago, Greer Beckett had lost everything. Her husband, her child, even her dreams. Getting on with her life was easier said than done, but now she was willing to try. It was time to go back to Eng...

  • Journey Toward Tomorrow

    Karyn Carr

    Finding him again could mean the greatest joy of her life, or a bigger heartbreak than she could imagine. For seven long years memories of Bert had kept Marcy Delaney wondering, hoping, but never really expecting to find him again. Yet, while vaca...

  • An Unexpected Gift

    Andrea Davidson

    A thoughtless boast teased them with love -- and sudden death Despite his charm, Greg Fisher was a fool. To have wagered his career, his reputation and most probably his life against the possibility of finding a legendary mine! Oh, Anne knew he th...

  • Autumn Reckoning

    Maggi Charles

    Although Jennifer Bentley was one of the world's richest heiresses, she had carved her own career as a creator of children's books, pouring all her emotions into the pages. Now she was returning to the beautiful Berkshires, where a stormy marriage ha...

  • The River Between

    Jacquelyn Cook

    The River had Brought Him to Her -- Would the River also Keep Them Apart? From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her ...

  • Hand in Hand

    Edith Delatush

    Beautiful librarian Erica Doddsworth was something of a local celebrity: a crack handwriting expert, she could tell exactly what a man was after just by looking at his signature. But when Mike Evans, the dashing new police chief, asked her to help hi...

  • Chances Are

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was a master at the game Public-relations expert Liz Jerome treated all her clients with professional detachment. But her new client, sexy Donovan Grant, just wasn't having any. Instead he caught her off guard with his subtle come-ons and his h...

  • The Scoundrel's Daughter

    Rachelle Edwards

    "I AM TO HAVE A SEASON AFTER ALL. I CAN SCARCELY CONTAIN MY DELIGHT!" Jacey Trevallion's joy at being summoned to London by her profligate father is to be short-lived indeed. For once there, he confesses to her that he has promised her portion--an...

  • Virtue and Vice

    Lucy Gordon

    TRADING PLACES Julia and Cindy were identical twins -- but different as night and day. Their family called them Virtue and Vice, and Julia was the good twin. She would I never do anything as foolish as to agree to impersonate her sister -- especia...

  • Dangerous Interlude

    Emily Elliott

    As a police investigator and forensic chemist, Amanda Blakeman had seen her share of danger and excitement. But she'd never known anyone quite like Jack Vance, the daring homicide officer who'd put the San Antonio SWAT Team on the map. Jack&#...

  • To Have It All

    Robin Elliott

    ALL OR NOTHING Jenna Winter didn't make a habit of getting locked in department-store windows, but if Brant Adams would always be there to rescue her, it was something that she could easily get used to. The ex-football star of the Los Angel...

  • One More River

    Suzanne Ellison

    It wasn't that Amy didn't believe in God ... It was just that she was afraid that He no longer believed in her .. . Faith, like childhood, was something she seemed to have outgrown, and returning to Camp Colina, the scene of her most meaningful ex...

  • A Chance Worth Taking

    Lynn Erickson

    She was the toughest challenge of all order. Serenity. her own oil company. Until Rick Hagen came to town. Kate Cummings, owner of her own Colorado based oil company, had it all, until she met Rick Hagan, hot corporate Robin Hood. He asked her help i...

  • The Dangerous Dr. Langhorne

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE LORD OF SCANDAL From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Philip Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced by this tall, elegant, handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him. First she heard that he had been a common ...

  • The Answering Tide

    Regan Forest

    She needed answers -- and she needed him. Adrienne Canaday had never thought of herself as a woman of mystery...until she discovered her birth certificate was a forgery. Unexpected, too, was the immediate fascination she had with dolphins...and with...

  • Night Bells Blooming

    Emma Goldrick

    Could she find the courage to love? Evy Hart was low on courage. She was frightened by anything that moved, that seemed authoritative, that seemed too masculine -- like Jason Brown. He was all male. Overpowering! But he was not the enemy. Afte...

  • An Angel's Share // Witness to Death

    Heather Graham

    She had no choice. She was his prisoner. She hadn't committed a crime. She’d seen one. As state's witness in a murder case, Lorna Doria was invaluable--and in danger. It was New York City undercover cop Andrew Trudeau's job to...

  • Gentle Warrior

    Julie Garwood

    IN FEUDAL ENGLAND, THE NOBLE ELIZABETH WAS TRAPPED IN HER OWN CASTLE-SUBJECT TO A PASSIONATE LORD! 1086, England. Lady Elizabeth Catherine Montwright barely escaped the bloody massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from their ancestral ...

  • The Heart's Yearning

    Ginna Gray

    Glamour, success, money...Laura Phillips had it all. Yet despite her full life, one yearning constantly tugged at her heart -- the desire to see her son. She'd been forced to give Mike away when he was born, but now the emptiness was too vast, th...

  • Island of Desire

    Antoinette Hale

    Block Island. She thought of it as her island. Elizabeth Dale-Jones - gallery proprietor, amateur photographer, all-around dilettante, and local heiress - was certain of two things: No one was going to put up a hotel that blocked her parents' view of...

  • A Matter of Magic

    Linda Hampton

    When the handsome man she'd crashed into headlong produced a rose from thin air, talent agent Georgette Finlay was sure she'd found the magician she'd been seeking! Unprepared to lose his amateur status or his executive job, Murray Richards did his b...

  • Token of Love

    Joan Grove

    If anything could go wrong, it clearly would. Christina Burke had come to the convention as stand-in for her ailing boss. Scheduled to meet with the company's efficiency expert, she was determined to dislike him on sight. But the West Virginia re...

  • Glittering Promises

    Anna Hudson

    Christine McMahon was determined that her annual get-rich-quick scheme was going to pay off this time. With the help of her beautiful sexy twin sister and her agent brother, how could a book called Hunter's Guide to Stalking a Man miss? But when Chri...

  • A Change of Fortune

    Sandra Heath

    TEMPTING TARGET Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud--until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and suc...

  • The Secret Bluestocking

    Eileen Jackson

    HER SHAMEFUL SECRET On the surface, Miss Emma Waring seemed a most proper young lady. True, her hair was a rather unfashionable reddish-gold, and at times a spark of deviltry marred her studiously innocent gaze. But all in all, Emma obeyed the pro...

  • River of Dreams

    Naomi Horton

    RENEGADE LOVE Beyond the sleek yacht stretched the mighty Amazon -- and the Brazilian jungle that hid Leigh Barnett's missing father. She'd come from Denver to find the only man daring enough to make the journey. Reluctantly Race Sloane ag...

  • Memories of the Heart

    Jean Kent

    Suzy Yoder's childhood had been idyllic. Raised by a loving Amish woman on a simple Pennsylvania farm, her life was perfect. Except for one thing--she didn't know who she was. Now Suzy's dream of discovering her identity might come true. She might...

  • Nina's Song

    Anna James

    TWO'S COMPANY Ten years ago Nina thought that she and Alex had a future together, as a couple and as a musical team -- Alex wrote the words; she made the music. But now she realized that all she had was their past. Except that Alex had just...

  • Golden Goddess

    Stephanie James

    SMUGGLED TREASURE Hannah Prescott had indulged in an innocent fantasy about Jarrett Blade, the handsome stranger books on the same plane with her on her vacation to Hawaii. But when this same man forced his way into her life by breaking into her h...

  • Summer Stars

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    Two weeks in the Virginia wilderness. It was no picnic. It was a unique company testing ground. The prize, for engineer Nikki Scott -- if she proved equal to the rugged challenges -- was the job she wanted: manager of a major bridge-building project....

  • Believe in Magic

    Dianne King

    TOGETHER THEY MADE THEIR OWN KIND OF MAGIC... Leigh Adams had planned to be firmly established as a film director before she fell in love. Zachary Stewart, producer, changed that. Working together day and night on Lodestar, Leigh and Zach disco...

  • Gifts of the Queen

    Mary Lide

    Ann of Cambray galloped across the Norman countryside, her flaming hair a banner unfurled in the breeze. Her lord, Raoul of Sieux was taking her home to the land of his childhood, to lie in his arms, to bear his child, to live in peace. But they w...

  • Star-Crossed

    Ruth Langan

    Perhaps if she'd met him under different circumstances--another time, another place. B.J. knew the arrogant Adam London thought she was just another reporter searching for glory. But his mother, the reclusive screen star, wanted her story told and hi...

  • The Trouble With Magic

    Megan Lane

    It would never work. She was not only an artist, but a bona fide psychic. He was an ex-military man, a war hero, and now a promising senatorial candidate. Vella Redding and Matthew Colridge had nothing in common. They had only to be seen in public to...

  • Moon for a Candle

    Maryn Langer

    Alexas Spence -- She came west, a small-town girl with big dreams, ready to fight for the only thing she had ever owned -- her ranch -- even if it meant clashing with the logger and the gentleman. David Hornbeck -- He rode into her life in a fine...

  • A Friend or Two

    Debbie Macomber

    MISTAKEN IDENTITY What was a Wainwright doing waitressing in a French pastry shop? Elizabeth was well aware of the fruits of wealth, but money wasn't bringing fulfillment. Fisherman's Wharf was a breath of fresh air for the Boston socialite, but whe...

  • More Than a Summer's Love

    Yvonne Lehman

    A summer at Subic Bay -- a dream come true or an incredible nightmare testing her to the limit? Stacey Stamford has entertained a ten-year-long dream--to meet the young Filipina whom she has sponsored through a children's fund organization since b...

  • Winter Meeting

    Doreen Owens Malek

    SILENT ENCOUNTER A twilit hush had settled over the cemetery, and the sighing of the wind in the trees and the hiss of falling snow combined to enclose two strangers in a still world. Leda Bradshaw was visiting the grave of her beloved father. Kyl...

  • The Matchmaking Department

    Dixie McKeone

    She didn't belong here ! What was the heiress to a multimillion-dollar department store doing working on a warehouse loading dock? It was all her uncle's fault, Jamie fumed. She didn't mind learning the family business from the grou...

  • Polished With Love

    Judith McWilliams

    He wanted a wife Simon Montcrief's wish seemed simple enough, Georgia Ingram decided. After all, marriage was the ultimate goal of all those who used her dating service, Cupid's Computer. But Simon also requested lessons in courting his future ...

  • So Much to Give

    Sheila Paulos

    She was shocked when Noah Jamison suggested a marriage of convenience. But it seemed the only answer for singles wanting to adopt. Reluctantly Maggie Clay agreed to a business arrangement with the Minneapolis Sentinel's controversial columnist, follo...

  • Golden Ecstasy

    Wanda Owen

    ANDREA WAS TOO INNOCENT ...to know that she felt intense desire for the rakehell Gil Barlow. The stunning beauty was furious that he had seen her tumble from her horse. But nothing could match her rage when he thoroughly kissed her full trembling li...

  • Where Fires Once Burned

    Zelma Orr

    Life offers few second chances--and none without a price It was the warmth of April's love that stretched across the years and the miles to comfort Russ in the dark days of his captivity. It had come when he'd needed it most--and now that he was f...

  • Dear Mit

    Sara Orwig

    "Dear Mit," his letter began, and Marilyn Pearson was transported instantly back to childhood, when Colly Rankin had been her very best friend, sharing secrets and daring her to do wild things. They'd lost touch after college, but now he was coming b...

  • Rainbow's Angel

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    When R. J. Jenkins first saw her, Kelly Morgan stood drenched in brilliant colored light from a stained-glass window--an angel who took his breath away. But there were many sides to this special woman, he soon learned: the organized executive who'd b...

  • Sweet Georgia Gal

    Emilie Richards

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT Hair the color of wildflower honey; skin like peaches and cream; lips like sweet watermelon. First runner-up for Miss Georgia, Stacey McDonald had a wholesome beauty that Ryan Cunningham couldn't resist. And neither could his four ...

  • A Woman's Wiles

    Nora Powers

    GAME OF LOVE When licensed psychologist Fran Warren wrote her book defending scientific theories on how to catch a husband, she was hardly prepared to have it attacked by heartthrob Martin O'Brien, host of the city's biggest talk show. But Fran...

  • Promises to Keep

    Joann Robb

    California Senator Eve Steele knew the issues, but when it came to the politics of loving, she lost all sense of diplomacy. Especially with her estranged husband, Alex, who could ruffle her cool image with a single fiery touch. Now Alex was running h...

  • Boundary Lines

    Nora Roberts

    FAMILY FEUD The feud between the Barons and the Murdocks spanned generations.... Jillian Baron was determined to make the Utopia ranch work -- for herself and to justify her grandfather's trust in her. Her heritage was important, and if making...

  • Wild Embrace

    Myra Rowe

    WILD LOVE It did not take long for Marisa Montfort to fall in love with the lean, dark Frenchman Nicholas Pomfrey. At first glance he made her gypsy blood boil and awakened her sleeping desires. Although still a young innocent, she knew thaat she ...

  • Risky Pleasure

    JoAnn Ross

    Was it a dream come true--or a nightmare? Blair MacKenzie had a successful modeling career, but her lifelong dream was to own a stable of horses, as her estranged grandfather had. When he died and left his reputable California farm to her, she tho...

  • Duskfire

    JoAnn Ross

    Not in a million years! Collaborating with rakish Ryan Sinclair would be impossible, Brandy Raines knew. He wrote gritty detective novels; she penned sweeping romantic sagas. Joint authorship would never work. Reluctantly Brandy agreed to meet...

  • Tyler's Woman

    Linda Sandifer

    LOVE'S ETERNAL FIRE Roseanne McVey was determined to join the dangerous cattle drive to the Colorado Territory -- with Tyler Chanson, the tall, darkly handsome man she had adored since she was a child. Beneath the magnificent starlit skies, she woul...

  • A Taste of Romance

    Glenda Sands

    HERO AT LARGE Denise Logan was fast on her way to becoming one of the top divorce attorneys in the state of Texas. But after years of watching her clients' marriages disintegrate, she'd ruled out all notions of love in her own life. Then she me...

  • Unsuspected Conduct

    Elaine K. Stirling

    She never suspected what awaited her in Rio... As a junior corporate attorney, Bethany Grey bemoaned the lack of glamour in her life. So when her aunt Zoe asked her to come to Rio de Janeiro, Bethany readily accepted. There, she became reacquainte...

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Andrea St. John

    She had a husband--until she demanded a home, a family, a normal life, and drove champion broncobuster Les Russell away. Their three-week marriage had landed in the dust when Shana McCloud, Miss Rodeo America, decided that nuptial bliss and nomadic r...

  • Leader of the Pack

    Diana Stuart

    Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night, May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms And the winter moon is bright. Jenna concentrated on training her husky team for the dogsled race. She refused to think about werewolves...

  • Choices and Chances

    Linda Vail

    Time was not on her side. Her biological clock was ticking away, leaving lovely stained-glass artist Heather Evans with some risky medical options. Everything might be solved by simply having a baby--but was that an option, with no man in her life? W...

  • Reckless Heart

    Lois Arvin Walker

    HIS SCANDALOUS PAST INTRIGUED HER -- BUT SHE WAS PLAYING WITH PASSION'S FIRE! INNOCENT LADY Rebecca Langford, the toast of London, had never been so mortified in her life. She had defied society by inviting the notorious Earl of Compton to he...

  • Star Rise

    Pat Wallace

    UP AND AWAY... Lisa Heron longed to reach the stars, but her role in the space program seemed limited to the practice of psychiatry. Though she had been cleared for space flight, she had begun that her moment to taste the glory of the heavens would ...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Peggy Webb

    Why had she let her mother persuade her to join the bird-watchers retreat? Mary Ann Gilcrest fumed--she had no business in the great outdoors! Then gorgeous Bill Benson offered to share his binoculars, and Mary Ann was drawn into his search for the r...

  • No Ordinary Man

    Brittany Young

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE Before she'd even met him, Cassie Wilde knew that Franco was no ordinary man. The Italian attorney had been secretly settling her late father's r debts. To Cassie, it all sounded too good to be true--even downright suspicious. ...

  • Roses Are Dead

    Loren D. Estleman

    Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller   For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband’s safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn’t possibly have ...

  • The Hard Knocker's Luck

    William Murray

  • Hammerhead Reef

    Don Pendleton

    FALL OF THE DRUG LORDS Mack Bolan answers a journalist's desperate cry for help, but arrives in Florida to find the reporter mysteriously murdered. And clues left by the man lead to a billion-dollar drug empire. Narcotics smugglers seem to be a...

  • Cuckoo's Egg

    C.J. Cherryh

    They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fig...

  • A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Harry Harrison

    In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery and counter-espionage, one name towers above all the rest--"Slippery Jim" diGriz, the fabled outlaw known and feared as The Stainless Steel Rat! Now, the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most ...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Patricia Veryan

    They dared all for one England, one dream, one love! NO TREACHERY CAN CONQUER A PASSIONATE HEART. NO MASQUERADE CAN CONCEAL THE EYES OF LOVE... It is 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion has been crushed, and his loyal followers, bound ...

  • Secrets

    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel, America’s number-one best-selling novelist, has held millions spell-bound with such novels as Family Album, Full Circle, and Changes. But with Secrets she takes her readers beyond the tightly knit world of the family, into the hea...

  • Enchanted Isle

    James M. Cain

    While searching for her father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess At thirteen, Mandy was too old for spanking when her stepfather first took her over his knee. She’s didn’t mind the pain, but hated the look in his eye and his lingerin...

  • A Position of Trust

    Roy Hart

  • Man from Internal Affairs

    Nat Hentoff

    Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division...

  • Safekeeping

    Gregory McDonald

    Brought to the United States under a program to save children from the Nazi blitzgkrieg, Robby Burns, a duke's son, finds himself under the questionable protection of a New York newspaper reporter inclined to drink...

  • Death in the Devil's Acre

    Anne Perry

    When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London aptly named "Devil's Acre;" even its most hardened residents are stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome "c...

  • Heaven

    V.C. Andrews

    OF ALL THE FOLKS IN THE MOUNTAIN SHACKS, THE CASTEELS WERE THE LOWEST--THE SCUM OF THE HILLS Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face.. . despite a father meaner than ten vi...

  • Starquake

    Robert L. Forward

    Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starqu...

  • Always Coming Home

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any ever written. A rich and complex interweaving of sto...

  • Frederica in Fashion

    Marion Chesney

    "SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...." So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny af...

  • The Wishing Star

    Marian Wells

    In the same genre as THE WEDDING DRESS and WITH THIS RING, author Marian Wells brings history and fiction together in a powerful novel of light and darkness, truth and falsehood, good and evil. THE WISHING STAR Jenny, living in the frontier district...

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    John Bellairs

    Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home -- the same room where the professor...

  • The Crimson Sea

    Gary Gygax

  • Space Assassin

    Steve Jackson

  • All Geared Up

    Seth McEvoy

  • Batteries Not Included

    Seth McEvoy

  • Lure of the Dark

    Sarah Sargent

  • The Island of the Grass King

    Nancy Willard

    Anatole’s search for wild fennel to cure his grandmother’s asthma takes him on a fantastic voyage. “This is a book for those who revel in the unexpected, in wonderful invention, in powerful and vivid and even mystical fancy. McPhail’s fine li...

  • Memories

    Francine Pascal

    Torn apart by love... The Wakefield twins' older brother, Steven, hasn't dated anyone since his girlfriend died of leukemia. He can't even look at another girl without thinking of his beloved Tricia. But Steven is drawn to Cara Walker. Sweet Valle...

  • The Bronze King

    Suzy McKee Charnas

  • The Ghost Squad and the Halloween Conspiracy

    E.W. Hildick

  • The Coach That Never Came

    Patricia Beatty

    A stagecoach that vanished without a trace...$40,000 in stolen payroll money...a jewel-studded belt buckle -- they are all pieces of a 110-year-old mystery, that Paul Braun is determined to solve.

    While the thirteen year-old Easterner is vis...

  • Prairie Songs

    CONRAD P

  • The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

    Howard Pyle

    Time honored retelling of the Arthurian legends, including the adventures of Sir Galahad and the pursuit of the Holy Grail, as well as the last days of King Arthur -- his attack on Sir Launcelot, fatal battle with Sir Mordred, and final journey to ...

  • Operation: Star Raider

    Eric Affabee

  • Moving Too Fast

    M.E. Cooper

    Can opposites attract . . . for keeps? It's love at first sight when an accidental meeting throws Sasha and Wesley together. But on their first date, this couple realizes they have little in common besides their love for each other: she's a romant...

  • Crazy Love

    M.E. Cooper

    Out of control... When Kim and Woody fall for each other, it's like a romantic scene from one of Woody's Kennedy High stage productions. Kim's smart, independent, and pretty; Woody's funny, talented, and handsome. They're destined for a happy endi...

  • Bright Shadow

    Avi

    In one day, Morwenna has gone from being the lowliest servant in the king's castle to the most powerful person in the land, for she has become the wizard, the bearer of the last five wishes in the kingdom. But with her new gift come rules: She cannot...

  • Tickled to Death

    Simon Brett

  • Marital Affairs

    Morris L. Cohen

    Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and promising career to support Jason's insatiable ambit...

  • The Later Adventures of Tom Jones

    Bob Coleman

    In 1774, Henry Fielding's irrepressible hero is roused from his finally staid and settled life and lights out for the turbulent American colonies, dogged by diverse ladies, husbands, children, lawyers, and villains...

  • Calke Abbey Derbyshire a Hidden House Revealed

    Howard Colvin

  • Funny Farm

    Jay Cronley

    Andy and Elizabeth Farmer exchange New York for a rural paradise but find that the pond next to their new house has snakes, the house is infested with mosquitoes, and the former owner is buried in the yard...

  • Remembering

    Dandi Daley Mackall

  • From a High Place

    Edward Mathis

  • The Magnificent Spinster

    May Sarton

    Sarton's 17th novel explores the realities and reverberations of a 50-year friendship between two remarkable women that ended with the death of Jane Reid. It is relived because Cam, in her seventies, decides to celebrate "the magnificent spinster" in...

  • Last Seen Alive

    Dorothy Simpson

    Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger: A troubled woman returns to her peaceful English village after twenty years -- and is murdered within twenty-four hours. When Det. Inspector Luke Thanet was a young man, Alicia Parnell was one of the most popular girl...

  • The Rattle-Rat

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Douwe Scherjoen has been murdered, far from his native Friesland. This remote province of Holland is almost like a foreign country, so it's fortunate that Detective GrQpstra was born there. With Sergeant de Gier in tow, he heads across the dike to hi...

  • Time After Time

    Allen Appel

    Alex Balfour travels back in time to Tsarist Russia. There he witnesses the death of Rasputin, befriends the young son of the Tsar, participates in the Revolution, battles his father and attempts to rescue the royal family....

  • He Will Not Walk With Me

    Alice Bach

  • Mallory's Gambit

    L. Christian Balling

    In a familiar but extremely well fleshed- out and grippingly authentic narrative, Balling ( The Fourth Shot , 1982) takes a credibly flawed and down-to-earth American protagonist from the extem porized assassination attempts of a French Underground c...

  • The Party

    Raymond Briggs

  • I Been There Before

    David Carkeet

    As the years of Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the two successive appearances of Halley's Comet, this book records Twain's fictive reincarnation, provoked by the comet's approach toward Earth in November, 1985...

  • Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

    Miriam Cohen

    When the class finds out that the new boy, Alex, exaggerates and even lies, no one wants anything to do with him. But when Alex helps Jim, he decides to befriend him, and soon Alex learns that to be accepted, you just need to be yourself....

  • Midair

    Frank Conroy

  • The Iron Web

    Ken Crowder

  • Charleyhorse

    Cecil Dawkins

  • The Great Thirst

    William Duggan

  • Murder in the Queen's Armes

    Aaron Elkins

    SKULLDUGGERY... Why would anyone steal a thirty-thousand-year-old skull? England's famous Poundbury Man has been swiped right from its museum case, and anthropologist Gideon Oliver, honeymooning in Britain with his new bride, Julie, finds the myst...

  • A Maggot

    John Fowles

    In the spring of 1736 four men and one woman, all traveling under assumed names, are crossing the Devonshire countryside en route to a mysterious rendezvous. Before their journey ends, one of them will be hanged, one will vanish, and the others will ...

  • Shadows Eight

    Charles L. Grant

  • Ship Rock

    Ted Greenwood

  • The Coming of the Kid

    Oakley Hall

    A lush who talks to horses, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, and hordes of uncanny riders make up the supporting cast of this satiric fable about the advent of the Kid, summoned to battle Evil in the Old West...

  • Timber Blood

    Steven F. Havill

  • Caribbee

    Thomas Hoover

    In the epic and powerful tradition of James Clavell and James Michener, Thomas Hoover, author of the international bestseller, The Moghul, presents a magnificent novel of bold adventure, political intrigue, and passionate romance. Caribbee, dazzlingl...

  • Or the Bambino Dies

    Peter Inchbald

  • Luke Sutton, Bounty Hunter

    Leo P. Kelley

  • After the Ball Was Over

    Rosemary Kingsland

    In a concise novel of class and caste set in a provincial town in India in 1930, a gallery of eccentrics, including Jane Barhill, daughter of a martinet father, and poor Lizzie Edwards, who thinks she is a bird, work out their tangled destinies...

  • Recombinations

    Perri Klass

  • The Good Terrorist

    Doris Lessing

    The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpect...

  • Seize the Fire

    Laura Kinsale

    THEIRS WAS A LOVE FORGED FROM TARNISHED DREAMS AND HAUNTING SECRETS... Sheridan Drake was a fallen angel... a scoundrel... a blackguard... every maiden's nightmare. Olympia St. Leger was an exiled princess in need of a hero. Amused by her innocenc...

  • Natural Selections

    Gloria Nagy

    After watching his aristocratic Southern family die from accidents, suicides, and disease, Adam Richeleau fathers a child to keep the family name alive, fakes a suicide, and undergoes the long-awaited operation that makes him a woman...

  • The Tree of Life

    Hugh Nissenson

  • The Elberg Collection

    Anthony Oliver

  • Three for Luck

    Josephine Poole

  • Human Error

    Paul Preuss

    "[W]onderful, enlightened, and convincing beyond any reasonable expectations of what a science fiction novel should be." -- Greg Bear Compugen has become a giant player in the tech field overnight by making genetically altered viruses into "biochips...

  • Murder Moves in

    A.M. Pyle

    In order to investigate a murder in a recently gentrified neighborhood of Cincinnati, detective Cesar Franck finds he must deal with angry contractors, entrepreneurs, and a self-serving community leader...

  • The Mysterious Marquis

    Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay

    Returned from the Valley of the Kings, Elizabeth Ridgeway enjoys a break from collating her archaeologist papa’s notes by walking in the lovely woods around her Perthshire home. There she discovers a small boy who has fallen into a stream. Since he...

  • Mystery Trivia Quiz Book

    Kitty Reese

  • Forbidden Love

    Eleanor Robins

  • The Incredible Cat Caper

    Kelley Roos

  • Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

    Bernice Rubens

    One day, the man in front of Luke at the post office drops down dead in line. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice....

  • Spark

    Muriel Spark

  • Night of the Whale

    Jerry Spinelli